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Hackensack council adopts ordinance updating affordable-housing rules, approves implementation package

Hackensack City Council · March 4, 2026
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Summary

The Hackensack City Council adopted Ordinance 04-20-26 to align the citys affordable-housing code with recent state regulatory changes and approved related resolutions on affirmative marketing, assistance and spending at its March 3 meeting; the measures passed unanimously.

Hackensack City Council on Tuesday adopted Ordinance 04-20-26, an update to Chapter 45A that the city said is necessary to comply with recent amendments to the Fair Housing Act and new uniform affordability controls in the state administrative code.

The ordinance, which the council moved to final adoption as Resolution 75-26, passed by unanimous roll call following a brief public hearing that drew no speakers on the ordinance itself. Council members also approved a consent-agenda package that included related affordable-housing actions: Resolution 80-26 adopting an affirmative marketing plan, Resolution 81-26 adopting an affordability assistance program manual, Resolution 82-26 adopting an affordable housing rehabilitation manual,…

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