Something had to of happened. Christie won in 2013 with 60% of the vote and then his lieutenant governor promptly lost in 2017 in a landslide election.
A lot of things happened.
Trump happened and gave the DNC a loud drum to beat.
Christie was not popular with a lot of people mostly because he was fat but partially because he was a feckless retard that had slap fights with NY and shutdown at least one bridge...oh right he totally did not do that...
COVID also changed a lot in NJ. There was a lot of immigration from PA and NY in the lock down years and a lot since.
But the groundwork for changing NJ was laid concretely with The River Line and figuratively with the Mount Laurel decision.
The River Line was started in 1999 and connects Camden(a massive hub of drugs and crime) to Trenton(a massive hub of drugs and crime with a connection to the NEC aka NYC which is a massive hub of drugs and crime and Democrats). No coincidence that RL has stops in many small towns in South Jersey. Small towns that were previously a little
inaccessible were now ripe to be
fucking raped deveoloped by scumfucks who build low income housing and completely shift demographics of towns and ruin the schools that land owners pay absurd property taxes to fund regardless of whether or not they have kids!
Bonus Light Rail fact: It is a massive money pit! Outside of upkeep because it is a conduit for criminals there are dedicated patrols and resources from towns with stations are wasted aiding in patrols. Even with those patrols many
commute time rowdies never actually pay to ride!
NJ also has the Mount Laurel Doctrine which led to the
Fair Housing Act.
In short
low income agitators and shit box construction companies sued to stop townships from deciding how they zone their own towns so now every town in NJ has to allot certain number of
low income units. It also created
The Council on Affordable Housing which robs municipalities of autonomy by making sure there are enough
low income units to go around even if that means you have to fill them with niggers from Camden, Philadelphia, New York, Hoboken, Newark, and Patterson! Notice that I inverted that equation? That is right they will build the
low income housing before they actually have demand!
Oh but Crumbs you say you are just some racist this is all very good and will never result in tyrannical faggotry to which I reply, "Oh really..."
Recently there was an attempt to steal a farm from people who owned it to build nigger boxes luckily it failed...for now:
Farm Saved said:
A town’s controversial attempt to seize a Middlesex County farm to build affordable housing appears to be dead after Gov. Phil Murphy announced a deal Thursday to spare the land.
Earlier this year, Cranbury Township approved a plan to meet state mandates to build more affordable housing by seizing the Henry family farm on South River Road.
The township planned to use eminent domain to buy the 21-acre farm, whether the family wanted to sell it or not. A developer planned to build six multifamily buildings and a community center on the site, according to municipal documents.
The Henry family’s fight to save their farm drew national attention, including promises by President Donald Trump’s administration to help block the attempt to seize the site.
Murphy said the deal to save the farm was reached with Andy and Christopher Henry, the brothers whose family has owned the property for generations. Township officials will explore other areas of the municipality to build affordable housing, the governor said.
“From the very beginning, I have opposed efforts to seize the Henry Family Farm through eminent domain,” Murphy said in a statement. “While every town in New Jersey must do its part to resolve our state’s affordable housing crisis, these efforts must be pursued thoughtfully and collaboratively.”
Timothy Duggan, an attorney representing the Henry brothers in a lawsuit against the township, said he’s “very confident” the deal will be finalized.
“Andy called me this morning, and he was ecstatic,” Duggan told NJ Advance Media. “Andy and Chris are just overwhelmed that we’ve reached this point, and that they’ve received the support across the board from everybody to have his property removed from the plan.”
The deal appears to hinge on a change in a New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency rule that will make it possible to use other land in Cranbury for affordable housing, local officials said. The rule is expected to be finalized by the end of the year.
“New Jersey’s family farms are an essential and deeply cherished part of our state’s story,” Murphy said.
The governor thanked a long list of people, including Trump administration officials, for “working in good faith to reach this resolution.”
The fight to save the farm drew the attention of the Trump administration over the summer, when federal officials began investigating whether it was legal to use eminent domain to acquire the farm. They argued the land is federally protected under the Farmland Protection Policy Act.
U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins urged Cranbury Township to forgo the seizure plan in June.
She hinted a deal was reached in a social media post Thursday morning.
“GOOD NEWS COMING!!!,” Rollins wrote on the social platform X. “Stay tuned. Andy, you are a warrior!”
U.S. Department of Agriculture officials did not immediately return an NJ Advance Media request to comment.
The end to the proposed land takeover still awaits a formal settlement proposal, according to a notice filed in court Wednesday by Kevin A. Van Hise, an attorney for Cranbury Township, and shared by the Murphy administration.
Meanwhile, township officials have agreed not to proceed with acquiring the land, the court papers said.
The plan appears contingent upon the state relaxing its warehouse buffer rule. The rule bans affordable housing projects within at least 250 feet of large warehouse property lines.
The rule was previously cited as one of the reasons the Henry farm was the only option for building affordable housing in Cranbury.
“In Cranbury’s case, this adjustment is meaningful,” Cranbury Mayor Lisa Knierim said in a statement. “This adjustment creates a meaningful opportunity for Cranbury to evaluate alternative sites to the Henry Farm, while continuing to meet our state-mandated affordable housing obligations with transparency and fiscal responsibility.”
The Fair Share Housing Center, which helps oversee the state’s affordable housing plan, thanked the two sides for reaching an agreement on sparing the farm. The statement thanked “the Township of Cranbury and the Henry family for working toward an agreement that would eliminate the use of the Henry Farm site in its affordable housing plan and any use of eminent domain on the site.”
Last month, township officials said they vetted other sites for housing development, hinting that the use of eminent domain to acquire the farm would end.
Under the state’s guidelines, New Jersey needs to add 146,000 affordable housing units, including 265 in Cranbury.
Township officials said they were challenged by a lack of available land that would meet state requirements for affordable housing construction. Other possible areas had other restrictions or didn’t qualify for federal tax credits to defray construction costs.
U.S. agriculture officials contended the township was required to abide by laws protecting farmlands if federal dollars would be used to build the housing community.
Andy and Christopher Henry assumed their family’s farmland in 2012. They said they have pumped more than $200,000 into its maintenance. The brothers live in New Mexico but lease the land for tenants who raise sheep and cattle.
Warehouse developers have repeatedly prodded the brothers to sell the land for about three decades, lauding its location between the New Jersey Turnpike and Route 130, according to the Henrys’ attorney. He said the land could be valued at around $5 million.
If you are lazy: A township was trying to steal a bunch of land from an active farm(owned by dirty dirty white people) to build low income housing and only failed because people noticed and it got more attention than the fucks in Cranbury expected.
You know what is crazy? All of these
affordable housing laws NJ has passed and all the
legal decisions in support of
affordable housing(10 combined since 1975) have only increased housing costs in NJ!
Property taxes, the highest in the US, are so outrageous people cannot afford them and sell land owned by their family for generations to corporations who promptly turn it into shitty housing or warehouses that sit empty for years.
Like you think you know why you hate NJ but it is impossible to hate NJ enough.
Ever notice whenever
fair is slapped on some law or regulation it is never about fairness and is in fact about massive government overreach in the guise of fairness?
