UNDERSTANDING SMART GROWTH

Having a home of your own matters to us. Finding balanced solutions for everything we need to live here in the future is just smart growth.

As New Jersey residents we expect to enjoy ourselves wherever we chose to live, call home a place that’s safe and clean, be a part of strong neighborhoods and send our children to good schools. We also want to feel secure. We want jobs close to home and we can’t stand getting stuck in traffic. Yet, we want to enjoy acres of open space that will be left for the ages. What if that doesn’t happen in New Jersey because the current plan for the future will allow so few new homes and businesses to be built that only upper income residents get to enjoy the American Dream? What if you were out? There is a smarter way to balance New Jersey’s growth.

Why should you care about housing? Because, skyrocketing costs may price you or your family members out of having a place to call home in New Jersey.

According to an economic survey conducted by the Builders League of South Jersey, for every $1,000 increase in the cost of housing approximately 7,000 households are priced out of the market in South Jersey alone.

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