Sounds like it’s time for many in NJ to take a sobering look at just what the consequences might be if relocation and going into foreclosure on an unsalable house there are the only available option.
If they are lucky they can find foreigners to buy the single-family homes and turn them into eight-family homes or boardinghouse-types; there is no other way for regular people to pay the taxes on them.
There are a few abandoned homes scattered around; the longer they sit vacant the less chance they will be sold to worthwhile buyers.