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Housing advocates urge preservation of Affordable Housing Trust Fund and emergency shelter support
Summary
Nonprofit housing developers, Habitat affiliates and homelessness advocates warned that governor’s budget proposals to divert or cut dedicated housing trust funds would endanger dozens of projects and asked the Legislature to preserve the Affordable Housing Trust Fund and add emergency shelter staffing support.
Representatives of local housing developers and Habitat for Humanity affiliates told the budget panel that the Affordable Housing Trust Fund is the primary source for smaller, 100% affordable projects and urged the Legislature to preserve the fund rather than redirect it. Liz DeCourcy (Greater Middlesex and Morris Habitat for Humanity), Scott Millard (Passaic County Habitat), Bridgette Pfeiffer (Parkside Partnership, Camden) and Sarah Matthews (Habitat Cape May) described projects that would…
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