Christie gave group 90 days to provide recommendations
BY TOM HESTER SR.
NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM
The chairwoman of Gov. Chris Christie's Housing Opportunity Task Force Thursday said she wants to see the state get back to what she described as the basics of providing affordable housing in New Jersey.
Former state senator Marcia Karrow told the Assembly Housing and Local Government Committee in Trenton that the Council on Affordable Housing, which has handled the state's role in providing low- and moderate-income housing for 23 years, has become entangled in regulations and lawsuits and strayed from its intended role.
Gov. Chris Christie is considering abolishing COAH and Assemblyman Jerry Green (D-Union), the committee's chairman, and the majority of people who appeared before the panel agreed that may have to happen.
Support for President Obama and his health-care reform proposals has begun to rebound in New Jersey, even as a rematch with state Sen. Tom Kean indicates trouble for U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) in...
