No Towns for Affordable Housing
Well it looks like some folks in Washington Township do not want low to moderate income housing in their neighborhood. At least that is what protesters at the Planning Board meeting last night.
Homeless Solutions Inc. wants to build 10 rental units in Washington Township near the border with Mount Olive. While Homeless Solutions Inc. does work with the homeless the affordable housing unit is separate from its sheltering services.
“They’re renters just like any of us who ever rented an apartment,” said Dan McGuire McGuire, Homeless Solutions Inc. “The only difference is that the apartments are income- restricted.”
It seems the problem for the protesters is not the building of the housing units themselves but Homeless Solutions Inc. plan to offer the units to people it is servicing who are not already residents of Washington Township.
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