The Coalition for Affordable Housing and the Environment is a statewide group of planning, environmental and housing organizations who recognize the interdependency of urban, suburban and rural communities. Identifying those areas in which environmental, planning and housing goals intersect, the Coalition - working with its members and other advocates from around the state - crafts multi-faceted solutions that would create a New Jersey with abundant open spaces, a clean environment, healthy cities, and reasonable housing opportunities for all its residents. By finding common ground on issues that affect every community in the state, the Coalition is building a unique partnership for a just and sustainable New Jersey.

Employment Opportunity: Executive Director

The Coalition is seeking an executive director who will help shape and direct its state policy and advocacy efforts. Click here for more information.

Our Top Initiative

The process of providing affordable housing in New Jersey is undeniably broken. Some, including many in the for profit development community, see weakening environmental protections as the means to promote growth and affordable housing. Others, including state and local government leaders, see the need to protect the environment as more important than providing affordable housing. In each camp there are those whose positions seek primarily to promote an ulterior motive, either more development or less affordable housing.

The Coalition and its members reject these false choices.

Accordingly, the Coalition is leading a fresh look at the issues of affordable housing provision and environmental protection. By working with diverse stakeholders, including some with whom the Coalition generally disagrees, and by looking at environmental and affordable housing issues from outside of the boxes that have been constructed over the past two decades, the Coalition will develop and promote comprehensive policy recommendations that can protect the environment and provide affordable housing far more successfully than is possible under the current, broken system.

Our Members, Sharing Ideas

In addition to the direct relationship between environmental and housing policies, there are any number of policy issues that lie primarily in one category but impact outcomes in the other. These issues include forthcoming state water rules, the State Plan, green infrastructure, site remediation and urban open space. The Coalition serves as a facilitator to enable its members to share ideas and concerns on these issues and to form partnerships to explore mutually beneficial strategies to address them.