Issue Position: The Council on Affordable Housing

Issue Position

Issue Position: The Council on Affordable Housing

The Council on Affordable Housing (COAH) is a group of nameless, faceless bureaucrats who are determined to force over 100,000 taxpayer-subsidized, low-income housing units into every town around the state of New Jersey. This radical agenda, promoted by Jon Corzine, flows from the New Jersey Supreme Court's Mt. Laurel decision that created a previously non-existent constitutional right to an affordable house.

Corzine's plan, based upon this court legislated creation, will result in higher taxes, greater wealth redistribution, and elimination of our hometowns and ways of living. Furthermore it is an obvious attempt to re-engineer the state's demographics for political gain. It is a liberal law created by a liberal court, passed by a liberal legislature, and implemented by a liberal executive, and the problems it has generated are too many to count. It must be completely overturned.

The Council on Affordable Housing (COAH) is a group of nameless, faceless bureaucrats who are determined to force over 100,000 taxpayer-subsidized, low-income housing units into every town around the state of New Jersey.

In order to eliminate COAH, I will get a question placed on the ballot allowing the voters to overturn the Mt. Laurel decision so that housing and zoning decisions can be returned to local municipalities, as was the case for our entire state history. Until I can place the question on a ballot, I will cut funding for COAH so it cannot impose its unrestrained will upon local communities.

While Corzine and others want to create a state filled with "urban centers" like Newark and Camden, or "transit hubs," we must let the free market and local zoning boards make local housing decisions. Some want to "gut" or "rework" COAH, but as long as it exists, every town's housing plans will still be controlled by the same faceless Trenton bureaucrats. In order to regain control, we must completely eliminate COAH so it does not exist at all.

The bureaucrats in Trenton believe they know how to make local zoning and planning decisions better than you and the fellow residents of your town, but we know that this is simply not the case.

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