News Updates
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NJ Speeds Up Mortgage Aid, But Still Trails Other States
New Jersey’s Emergency Rescue Mortgage Assistance program has given out over $100 million since February 2022, but complications have prevented more money from going out and have slowed distribution to those who have been approved. Keep reading »
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Micro-units Create Housing in Otherwise Unaffordable Market
Nohona Hale in Honolulu is Hawaii’s first micro-unit rental community, opening in 2020 in central Hawaii’s expensive rental market. Keep reading »
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Cash Assistance to Renters Considered as Alternative to Vouchers
A group of researchers at the Department of Housing and Urban Development have been developing an idea that could fundamentally upend the nearly 50-year-old housing voucher program, which helps more than 2 million low-income families afford apartments in the private rental market every year. Keep reading »
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Jersey City Considering ADUs to Help with Affordability
Jersey City Considering ADUs to Help with Affordability Keep reading »
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Report Says NJ Doubled Affordable Housing Starts Since 2015
New Jersey towns doubled the rate at which they built affordable housing after a judge declared the statewide agency meant to oversee such construction defunct in 2015, shifting the process to court settlements, according to a report released by Fair Share Housing Center. Keep reading »
