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With the recent passing of the 21st Century Road to Housing Act, housing experts examine the law and question the impact it will have on the state.

With New Jersey’s housing costs among the highest in the country, Gov. Mikie Sherrill signed a measure last week that’s designed to protect renters. The Forbidding the Algorithmic Inflation of Rent, or FAIR, Act regulates how landlords can use rent-setting software that can artificially inflate housing costs.

Neptune Township is showing that affordable housing can be about more than simply meeting a legal requirement — it can be part of a broader vision for a stronger community.

By requiring every municipality to create its fair share of affordable homes, the Garden State offers a compelling model for other states to build on.

Today, the New Jersey legislature approved the final budget deal and sent the FAIR Act — which would ban algorithmic rent software used by landlords to manipulate the market and coordinate rent increases — to Gov. Sherrill’s desk.

Black and Latino New Jersey residents are far less likely than other residents to own their homes, according to a poll by The Eagleton Center for Public Interest Polling at Rutgers University.

The borough is headed back to court after challenges to its revised affordable housing plan for its KPMG property by Fair Share Housing Center.