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1. Assembly narrowly approves bill to drastically reduce amount of affordable housing
(N.J./State)

... towns relief from COAH's unreasonable demands, offers businesses a much-needed break and clears the way for housing for lower-income New Jerseyans to finally actually be built in our state. It is a sound ...

2. With advocates' support, Assembly panel approves bill to revise affordable housing standards
(N.J./State)

... would abolish COAH and what officials believe is its bureaucracy, eliminate the 2.5 percent fee on commercial development and provide major housing obligation reductions for cities and towns throughout ...

3. N.J. lawmakers need to reform affordable housing, arbitration and civil service rules before year ends
(Opinion/Commentary)

... makers to agree on three major issues. Those issues are affordable housing and COAH, binding interest arbitration repeal or reform and civil service reform. While coming too late to provide help in 2011, ...

4. New Jersey affordable housing standards bill approved by Assembly panel
(N.J./State)

... working families. "We need to replace COAH with an effective and efficient system for building and rehabilitating more homes," Walsh said. "Instead, this legislation would fail to meet the constitutional ...

5. COAH
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

Here come the cinder block high rises to a small township near you. My advice, if you are not a township with a certified affordable housing plan, you had better get on board pronto! The writing is ...

6. Appeals court holds state standards blocking availability of affordable housing in New Jersey
(N.J./State)

Orders COAH to develop new rules within 5 months BY TOM HESTER SR. NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM A state appeals court Friday held that the state Council on Affordable Housing has done too little to remove ...

7. Marlboro facing court action for failing to provide affordable housing for 15 years
(N.J./State)

COAH approves housing plans for Union, Cresskill Marlboro was removed from the protections of the state Council on Affordable Housing Wednesday because the agency found that the township "consistently ...

8. Chris Christie is decisive, but divisive
(Opinion/Commentary)

... the same game plan to attack the problem of providing desperately needed affordable housing in New Jersey. He has called for the elimination of the Council on Affordable Housing (COAH) and the bureaucratic ...

9. Unfunded N.J. mandates blamed for property tax hikes
(N.J./State)

... salary increases to uniform police and firemen, reductions of sate revenue replacement funding, rigid non yielding environmental regulations and COAH requirements," Bencivengo said. "Absent state attention ...

10. N.J. Education Commissioner Bret Schundler to tell Senate panel of his priorities
(N.J./State)

... COAH reform, health benefits reform, mandates relief, revenue replacement funding compliance, flexibility to deal with pension costs, utility costs, disaster and emergency response costs and other costs ...

11. Reforms can make privatization a better tool for N.J.
(Opinion/Commentary)

... defense, COAH defense, police officer liability defense, accounting and auditing; and a host of other services. How can the private sector provide a service at a lesser cost than government can? ...

12. Senate approves 2 percent cap on N.J. property tax hikes, local government and school spending
(N.J./State)

... binding arbitration reform, COAH reform, health benefits reform, mandates relief, civil service reform, flexibility to deal with pension costs, utility costs, disaster and emergency response costs and ...

13. Christie offers compromise on 2.5 percent property tax and government spending cap proposal
(N.J./State)

... initiatives include binding arbitration reform, COAH reform, health benefits reform, mandates relief, civil service reform, flexibility to deal with pension costs, utility costs, disaster and emergency ...

14. Does Gov. Christie have an overall budget plan for N.J.?
(Opinion/Commentary)

... discussions at times are deep but the question remains, "What about an overall plan?" Other than a "Toolbox" for mayors that only seems to include ways to curb employee benefits, guts COAH and places a ...

15. Christie wants N.J. affordable housing bill approved by end of June
(N.J./State)

... housing organization in New Jersey opposes the legislation in its present form, which was overwhelmingly approved by the Senate. "The governor's goals are simple," Grifa said. "First, end COAH (the state ...

16. Pro-affordable housing groups want legislation that produces homes near jobs, transit
(N.J./State)

... Local Government Committee at 10 a.m.. Thursday at the Statehouse Annex in Trenton. The measure would abolish COAH and give cities and towns may power to decide their affordable housing needs. Proponents ...

17. Chiusano urges Assembly to act quickly on N.J. affordable housing bill
(N.J./State)

... cities and towns a role in deciding how much housing would be provided. “There is strong desire to gut COAH and we can’t stop now that we have the knife halfway in the belly of the beast,” Chiusano said. ...

18. Senate approves N.J. affordable housing bill
(N.J./State)

Measure opposed by activists moves to Assembly BY TOM HESTER SR. NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM UPDATED Bipartisan legislation which would replace abolish the state Council on Affordable Housing (COAH) ...

19. Bill to change affordable housing rules, abolish COAH, up for vote
(N.J./State)

... to see COAH abolished. In advance of the vote, over 100 organizations Wednesday called on Christie and legislative leaders to oppose the legislation. They said the proposal would reduce the availability ...

20. Housing advocates strongly oppose Sen. Lesniak's $20M bill to bailout private developer
(N.J./State)

... everywhere else." Responding to the criticism, Lesniak said, "S-1 would have produced 150 percent of the affordable housing units that COAH (the state Council on Affordable Housing) produced over ...