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Title	Housing New Jersey’s Workforce: Instituting a New Jersey State Housing Policy
Highlights	There is implicit recognition that discriminatory policies can reduce housing affordability for low-income residents.   This report recommends strengthening anti-discriminatory protections to increase affordable housing opportunities.                       There is implicit recognition that tax policies can discourage affordable housing development.   This report recommends enacting a state multifamily tax credit program and providing tax incentives to encourage affordable housing development in New Jersey.
Description	This report examines the lack of housing affordability for low-income residents in the state of New Jersey and provides recommendations to enact a comprehensive state workforce housing policy. To increase affordable housing options for very low- and low-income workers, the report states that New Jersey should adopt policies geared toward increasing construction and renovation of affordable housing, preserving existing affordable housing, and facilitating rehabilitation of abandoned properties for affordable housing purposes. Some of the policy recommendations in the report include enacting a state multifamily tax credit program, providing tax incentives to promote employer-assisted housing, strengthening anti-discriminatory protections, and expanding funding for the development of affordable housing on brownfield sites.
Publication Date	2003
Organization	Anti-Poverty Network of New Jersey
Web Location	http://www.antipovertynetwork.org/pdf/apnhousingpolicy.pdf

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