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HEDC director outlines affordable‑housing priorities and pledges cooperation on rent‑registration audit and tenant complaints
Summary
Leah, the city’s HEDC director, presented a governance and affordability agenda focused on building lower‑AMI housing, expanding oversight of existing affordability commitments and modernizing permit/registrations. She pledged cooperation with a rent‑protections special investigation and acknowledged staffing shortfalls hampering enforcement of rental registrations and rent‑control compliance.
Leah, the director of the Housing, Economic Development & Commerce (HEDC) agency, appeared at the Jersey City council caucus as part of her reappointment discussion and described a two‑part agenda: expand affordable housing at lower AMI levels and improve governance and operational systems to make compliance transparent and enforceable.
Leah recounted the department’s technological work (an integrated permitting portal) and said she created the Division of Affordable Housing to…
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