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This bill provides municipalities with credit against their fair share affordable housing obligation for dwellings produced for the use of migrant farm workers. This legislation requires the Council on Affordable Housing to permit a municipality to credit units built for the use of seasonal farm workers against the municipality's fair share obligation. Units produced for temporary farm workers do not generate an affordable housing obligation pursuant to the "Fair Housing Act," N.J.S.A.52:27D-301 et al., because the dwellings are not intended for market-rate consumption. Units of housing produced for low- and moderate-income families necessarily fall within the definition of affordable housing because they are an actual source of housing for workers whose incomes are likely to be well below an area median.

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Dawn Fantasia (R)*,  Michael Inganamort (R)*, 

Introduced, Referred to Assembly Housing Committee (on 01/09/2024)

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