News Updates
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Has Bergen County Ended Homelessness?
Officials in Bergen County are hoping that this year, as it has in the five previous years, the county will have reached “functional zero” for chronic homelessness and veteran homelessness. Functional Zero is a metric created by the nonprofit Community Solutions and which later influenced the federal government’s own definition. Far from meaning the county is not experiencing homelessness, the formula essentially assures that capacity exists to house everyone within a prioritized category relatively quickly. Read about Bergen County and functional zero. Keep reading »
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Incentivizing Missing Middle Housing Development
Housing that is neither a single-family home nor a massive apartment building is often missing from the housing development landscape, which is why it has been termed the “missing middle.” Norfolk, Virginia recently approved a Missing Middle Pattern Book that provides free architectural plans for one, two, and three-bedroom units that can easily be mixed into existing housing. Keep reading »
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NJ Renters Struggle to Find Housing Even With Covid Aid
Renters who have COVID-19 housing relief aid are struggling to find stable housing because landlords don’t like the impermanent nature of the relief money and/or don’t understand the programs. Keep reading »
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Starter Homes Are Out of Reach
Research shows that nationally the number of starter homes has decreased dramatically in the last 40 years and the trend hold in New Jersey where people who don’t qualify for affordable housing are being priced out of market rate for sale homes. Keep reading »
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87%: Garden State Residents Who Say Housing Costs Serious Problem
Eighty-seven percent of survey respondents say housing costs are a serious problem in New Jersey Keep reading »
