Brookings Institution

August 18, 2008 - 12:06pm
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WATSON COLEMAN: NEW REPORT UNDERSCORES IMPORTANCE OF BROADENING ACCESS TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING

NEW REPORT UNDERSCORES IMPORTANCE
OF BROADENING ACCESS TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING

Brookings Institution Study Showing Growing Rates of Concentrated Poverty
Among Working Poor Further Justifies New Affordable Housing Law

(TRENTON) - Assembly Majority Leader Bonnie Watson Coleman today said a new national study showing more working poor families are being trapped in urban areas with concentrated poverty proves New Jersey was correct to do away with the immoral state law that allowed wealthy suburban towns to stockpile affordable housing into cities.

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