New Jersey's Mount Laurel Affordable Housing Doctrine

2 June 2002 - 11:00am

The New Jersey Supreme Court is poised to hand down a new ruling to mandate affordable housing.

"For the first time in 15 years, the New Jersey Supreme Court has taken on the state's landmark Mount Laurel doctrine, and longtime observers of the court say the justices could be poised to write a new chapter in the decades-long struggle to provide affordable housing for the poor."

Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 1, 2002
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