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Posted by WillD on Sat Mar 31 01:33:15 2012, in response to Affordable Housing and Social Engineering in New Jersey, posted by DAND124 on Fri Mar 30 20:37:54 2012. What the hell? Are either of these people even remotely familiar with COAH, Mt Laurel I, and Mt Laurel II? The Mt Laurel Decisions were *never* about anything ANYONE would ever consider high density, nor did they dictate that the housing had to be low income! All the units are sold or rented at the market rate, with any subsidization left to the resident's eligibility for federal, state, or local aid. And even then the subsidization options at the local level were only opened up as part of the reaction to the decisions' impact during the Whitman years.The *only* thing the original decisions stated was that the local governments could not reduce the number of students in their districts by pricing out the middle and working classes through exclusionary zoning to put their property tax burden on a smaller number of wealthier residents. It was the zoning laws that were struck down by the Mt Laurel decisions that were the attempt at social engineering. The then outer Philadelphia suburbs were trying to create a firebreak against the encroaching suburban mass to the east of them and 'preserve' their upper class status. The state supreme court decided that the local governments did not have the right to deny residence on the basis of economic status when those economics were distorted by that government's own zoning policies. Of course, seeing how Mount Laurel ended up a bland euclidian zoned suburban hellhole of subdivisions, office parks, and big box stores like the rest of South Jersey east of 295 and west of 206 I guess there is some justice in the world. Now we just need a Mount Laurel III, to force towns which build enormous numbers of senior living communities on greenfield sites to have to send a proportion of their artificially inflated property tax revenue into a general education fund to be disbursed on a statewide basis. |
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