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ROBERTS: NEW REPORT UNDERSCORES NEED FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING
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(TRENTON) – Assembly Speaker Joseph J. Roberts Jr. today said a new study underscores the need to fight for affordable housing in communities throughout the state.
The report prepared by the Fair Share Housing Center found that, among other things, many public workers cannot afford to live in the communities where they work.
Roberts recently spearheaded a new law overhauling New Jersey’s affordable housing rules to do away with regional contribution agreements, under which wealthy suburban municipalities paid poorer cities to shoulder their affordable housing burden, among other reforms.
Roberts, D-Camden, released the following statement in response to the new report:
“As the statistics prove, New Jersey's old housing laws all but blocked teachers, firefighters and police from living in the communities that they serve. With so many working families craving an affordable place to live, towns cannot be allowed to cherry-pick who they will and will not allow to live within their borders, and our recent affordable housing reforms are giving towns new ways to make it easier to provide that housing."
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You've got to be kidding....
"many public workers cannot afford to live in the communities where they work."
You've got to be kidding.
Government employees in New Jersey earn more than those few private sector workers left.
It shows that Joe Roberts has one constituency -- people with their hands out trying to glom as many tax dollars as possible. Those who pay the taxes can go scratch. Roberts and his fellow travelers in the legislature don't give a damn about taxpayers, only government employees and welfare leeches (the same thing in many cases).
Roberts is the gift that keeps on giving and he gives Republicans an opening on a daily basis.
The only problem is the state GOP leadership is more interested in "reform" (code word for people who can't clean up snow) than putting taxpayers first. Most of the state GOP "leadership" and their "advisors" don't even understand why people don't want Low Income Housing in their towns.
Republicans will start winning when the architects of the "don't piss off Joe Roberts" school of thinking are no longer running the Republican Party -- particularly in the Assembly where Alex DeCroce is Roberts' number one enabler.