Tag: Affordable Housing

  • Princeton Community Housing to build 25 new affordable homes

    Princeton Community Housing to build 25 new affordable homes

    Representatives of Princeton Community Housing (PCH) gathered with PCH Trustees, supporters and members of the community to kick off the public phase of their Home Means Hope Campaign, raising $2 million to build 25 new affordable homes in Princeton. Speakers at the event at Mountain Lakes House in Princeton on May 13 included PCH’s Executive…

  • Tinton Falls will release affordability controls on 17 housing units

    Tinton Falls will release affordability controls on 17 housing units

    TINTON FALLS – After meeting their obligation as it relates to the provision of affordable housing in the community, officials in Tinton Falls are planning to release an affordable housing requirement at one local residential development. During a meeting on April 19, members of the Borough Council introduced an ordinance that will, if adopted, release…

  • Millstone residential development application carried to May 11

    Millstone residential development application carried to May 11

    MILLSTONE – An application that proposes the construction of a residential development that will include market rate townhouses and affordable housing condominiums has been carried to the May 11 meeting of the Millstone Township Planning Board. Representatives of Hexa Builders, LLC, appeared before the Planning Board on March 9 to seek preliminary and final major…

  • Millstone officials plan for affordable housing on Novad Court

    Millstone officials plan for affordable housing on Novad Court

    MILLSTONE – Municipal officials in Millstone Township are taking action to develop a site on Novad Court as they work to address the township’s obligation to provide opportunities for the development of affordable housing. Novad Court is off Route 537 in the vicinity of Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson. On March 16, Township Committee…

  • Matawan acts to comply with affordable housing requirements

    Matawan acts to comply with affordable housing requirements

    MATAWAN – The members of the Matawan Borough Council have passed a resolution that will secure the borough’s third round of affordable housing compliance. During a meeting on Feb. 1, the governing body confirmed Matawan has met, and will continue to meet, its affordable housing obligations. Ron Gordon, who is the borough’s affordable housing attorney,…

  • Public expected to comment on Howell housing project during Feb. 17 meeting

    Public expected to comment on Howell housing project during Feb. 17 meeting

    HOWELL – Members of the public are expected to have their say on a proposed 319-unit residential development when the Howell Planning Board meets on Feb. 17. The applicant, FP Howell, LLC, and the Estate of William Whalen by Gina Bettencourt, John Berkoben and Ruth Bennett, as owners, is seeking preliminary and final major subdivision…

  • Millstone Township officials take action to advance affordable housing

    Millstone Township officials take action to advance affordable housing

    MILLSTONE – The Township Committee in Millstone Township has provided support for a planned 98-unit development on Burnt Tavern Road that will assist the municipality in meeting its affordable housing obligation. On Jan. 19, committee members passed a resolution of need regarding a proposed housing development from the Affordable Housing Alliance (AHA), Neptune. Construction of…

  • Planning Board gives go-ahead to Colts Neck Manor apartment complex

    Planning Board gives go-ahead to Colts Neck Manor apartment complex

    COLTS NECK – Following a public hearing process that stretched across several meetings, the members of the Colts Neck Planning Board have approved the Colts Neck Manor apartment complex. The location of the project is on Route 537. The property is about 40 acres and is opposite Five Points Road, across from Five Points Park…

  • Drinking water at risk with proposed development in Colts Neck

    Drinking water at risk with proposed development in Colts Neck

    The League of Women Voters has long supported low and moderate income housing policies as well as protections for clean drinking water. The Fair Housing Act and the State Planning Act, passed together and legally linked, established how to build affordable housing without endangering public health and critical environmental resources. In particular, the league is…