Another Rocky Start for Affordable-Housing Legislation

Lawmakers planned to approve A-4, a 70-page bill that seeks to replace the defunct Council on Affordable Housing (COAH) with a process similar to the one used by a superior court judge in 2018 to determine how many homes communities need to allow within their borders. But other measures were given greater priority during the lame-duck legislative session. Now, legislative sources said they hope to pass the measure early in the session that begins Tuesday.