Brian Lear on WNYC. Affordable housing in New Jersey

is undergoing a sweeping set of changes

that will hopefully result

in hundreds of thousands of new homes

in just about every community in the garden state.

This week, if you haven't heard, Governor Murphy signed a bill into law, and we talked in the first segment

about a new law sung by Governor Hokle, now it's Governor Murphy's new bill into law moment

that will assign numerical affordable housing goals to New Jersey municipalities

and hold them accountable for allowing development as reported

by our Gothamist newsroom.

Unsurprisingly, the law is facing backlash from Republican politicians.

A lot of Republicans voted against it in the legislature, and many residents of mostly wealthier New Jersey townships. Our newsroom has reported as a prime example on Milburn, you know Milburn at Essex County west of Newark near

Maplewood along the Morrison Essex N.J Transit line at the Milburn Short Hill

Station which has already, quote,

defied multiple court orders to move forward

with development of a 75 unit, just 75 units,

100% affordable housing complex in the heart of their upscale downtown as

Gothamist reports and joining us now to explain the changes coming to New Jersey's

affordable housing and take us into the

conflict in Melbourne Township as an example is our new colleague in the WNYC

in Gothamist Newsroom Mike Hayes a reporter covering equity and access to opportunity in New Jersey,

and author of the book on the New York side, The Secret Files, Bill de Blaseo, the NYPD, the NYPD, and the broken promises of police reform published

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