Click here: to donate by Credit Card
Or here: to donate by PayPal
Or by mail to: Free Republic, LLC - PO Box 9771 - Fresno, CA 93794
Thank you very much and God bless you.
Posted on 01/21/2026 6:56:25 AM PST by Kid Shelleen
A lawsuit filed by a group of towns which challenges the state’s 2024 affordable-housing law was dismissed Tuesday by a federal court judge.
United States District Judge Zahid Quraishi dismissed the suit because he said the towns were not allowed to bring this type of constitutional challenge to federal court.
(Excerpt) Read more at nj.com ...
|
|
Click here: to donate by Credit Card Or here: to donate by PayPal Or by mail to: Free Republic, LLC - PO Box 9771 - Fresno, CA 93794 Thank you very much and God bless you. |
Yes, all constitutional questions are settled in local traffic courts.
What country is this again?
The court was right in this case.
It’s a local/state issue, not federal.
Another foreigner judge (Pakistani born in NY) with not a lick or respect for our Constitution or our norms and traditions of limited government. As it is in Pakistan, what is legal is whatever his political allies want.
Just another Pinhead judge
Demand that multi-family units be built in every gated community.
No affordable housing being built on Martha’s Vineyard. They dump a lot of ghetto rats on working class people that try to get away from the violence.
Absolutely my thoughts. In fact, such communities should surround the wealthiest/most leftist areas.
No....because they just import workers for the summer.
Well, to be fair, he was born in the US (parents are Pakistani immigrants), and served in the U.S. military (as a legal advisor in Germany and Iraq).
what, no federal money through HUD, section 8 involved? If no federal money, towns have little to be concerned about.
Ad valorum taxation should be replaced by square root of finished square feet taxation.
A 900 sq. ft. apartment would pay 3/5ths the amount of property tax a 2,500 sq. ft. house would pay.
It's violating individual's rights via unequal application of the law.
If it's good for one, it's good for all. There's no mandated "affordable housing" in Martha's Vineyard, the Hamptons, Greenwich Connecticut, Miami Beach, Beverly Hills, etc.
It’s a state mandate in NJ.
Suburbs date from the 1840s as does public schooling in general.
They tend to flatten ad valorum taxation as the more expensive houses in the suburbs would have to pay a lower rate of tax per square foot to general equal funding.
$1,000 houses in city x tax rate $10/$1000 = $10/year
$2,000 houses in suburb x tax rate $5/$1000 = $10/year
it’s called the Mount Laurel law ...
“Beverly Hills”
One guy in Beverly Hills is putting up a massive building and the city can’t block him.
‘ There’s no mandated “affordable housing” in Martha’s Vineyard, the Hamptons, Greenwich Connecticut, Miami Beach, Beverly Hills, etc.’
They all have programs, not all the same, but they have them.
https://www.beverlyhills.org/1107/Affordable-Housing-Placement-Program
https://www.edgartown-ma.us/departments/affordable-housing
https://www.southamptontownny.gov/2100/Affordable-Housing
http://www.ehamptonny.gov/219/Section-8-Housing-Choice-Voucher-Program
https://www.greenwichct.gov/1852/Affordable-Housing-Programs
http://www.miamibeachcdc.com/lowincomehousing
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.