Mike Hayes
Reporter at WNYC (New York, NY)
Reporter at Gothamist
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2 days ago |
gothamist.com | Mike Hayes
Dozens of New Jersey towns are seeking to extend a June 30 deadline to adopt plans showing how they’re going to meet state requirements to generate new affordable housing in their communities. So far, the panel of judges reviewing the requests in state court has rejected the towns’ appeals for extra time. According to housing advocates, about 80 of the state’s 564 municipalities have sought 90-day extensions to finalize their plans.
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1 week ago |
gothamist.com | Mike Hayes
City councilmembers in Summit, New Jersey, may be backing down from a controversial proposal to ban homeless encampments in public spaces, which critics say would have allowed police to jail homeless people. The council in Summit, one of New Jersey’s wealthiest communities, last month introduced an ordinance stating that anyone sleeping or camping on public land could be jailed for up to 90 days and fined $2,000. The proposal set off a firestorm in the community.
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3 weeks ago |
gothamist.com | Mike Hayes |Christopher Werth
Officials in Summit, New Jersey, voted Tuesday to delay their vote on a controversial ordinance that would allow the city’s police department to jail homeless people who camp in public spaces. The measure faced widespread outcry from residents at a packed public meeting that carried over into the early hours of Wednesday.
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3 weeks ago |
gothamist.com | Mike Hayes
Officials in Emerson, New Jersey, have rejected a proposal from a nonprofit to open a new facility in their town to house homeless families. At its Feb. 20 meeting, the Emerson Land Use Board shot down Family Promise’s request to rezone commercial property it had contracted to purchase last year.
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4 weeks ago |
gothamist.com | Mike Hayes
In 2023, Tammy Antunes and her husband turned to New Jersey’s affordable housing program in the hope of finding a home that is both big enough to raise children and that was within a manageable commute to their jobs in North Jersey. Antunes works as a nanny. Her husband is a truck driver, and their combined income of $80,000 wasn’t enough to buy or even rent at market rate in the state’s pricey housing market.
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RT @Gothamist: Wealthy NJ city rethinks law that could jail homeless people, after public outcry https://t.co/cpxb2lE9Id
RT @Gothamist: NJ city delays vote on jailing of homeless people living in encampments https://t.co/xSSHLxkDWt
RT @Gothamist: Emerson, which refers to itself as “the Family Town” on its website, has a median household income of more than $153,000, ab…