New Jersey’s new affordable housing law is proving the naysayers wrong. Today we announced that 380 municipalities now have compliant housing plans — an unprecedented level of participation in NJ's affordable housing process. Learn more in our press release:

New @nj.com op-ed: The choices made in NJ's lame duck session could decide whether thousands stay housed — or face eviction. Fair Share Housing Center's Al-Tariq Witcher urges lawmakers to expand housing funding, reform outdated zoning laws, and strengthen tenant protections:

how do black immigrants experience the intersections of the u.s.'s criminal and immigration legal systems? i explore the foundations and manifestations of xenophobic, anti-black racism in policing, incarceration and deportation in my latest piece. you can read it here: prospect.org/2025/12/12/v...

Thanks to New Jersey's new law strengthening the Mount Laurel Doctrine, many more municipalities are creating affordable homes than ever before. "It’s not going to solve all of our housing problems, but it’s really stronger than any other state’s affordable housing requirements."

If you want a broader look at the role the lack of stable housing is playing in the child welfare system nationwide, check out @brycecovert.bsky.social's incredible overview in @thenation.com. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Wrote this piece for @newrepublic.com with Professor Brandon Marshall about how the overdose crisis is driven by poverty and how harm reduction measures get the blame for larger structural problems they aren't designed to fix. We need economic populism and economic justice.

Zohran showed that a socialist can take City Hall—but the ruling class still forced him to keep Jessica Tisch at the NYPD. For Zohran to fight the police unions and win, the Left has to build power beyond the ballot box. New from me for The Nation: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Today, Gov.-Elect Sherrill appointed our executive director, Adam Gordon, to her Transition Team. "With housing costs at record highs and federal funding cuts threatening thousands of families with eviction and homelessness, now is the moment for urgent, ambitious leadership," said Gordon.

Today, 158 orgs sent a letter to Gov.-Elect @mikiesherrill.bsky.social urging her to prioritize housing justice. Amid soaring costs & devastating federal cuts, we need bold policies to protect tenants & expand affordable homes. Learn more & read the letter: www.fairsharehousing.org/press-releas...

Excellent news from Connecticut! Their housing bill builds on the success of New Jersey's experience — requiring most of the state's municipalities to create housing plans that include a certain amount of affordable housing based on regional needs.

What the proponents of Pollingism simply cannot understand is that the purpose of politics is to enact an agenda, not simply to win for the sake of doing so. contrarian.substack.com/p/bringing-a...

I'm in @thenation.com this morning on the repeated failure of transphobia as political strategy, efforts to scapegoat trans people for Democrats' own failures, and Zohran Mamdani's model of solidarity

Mamdani has prioritized Public Safety throughout the campaign. By refusing to hire 5,000 more police, as proposed by Cuomo, he is saving the city hundreds of millions of dollars that can now be spent on real public safety. www.cityandstateny.com/opinion/2025...

Congratulations to Gov.-Elect @repsherrill.bsky.social! NJ voters want bold action on housing — protecting tenants, expanding affordable housing, and reforming outdated zoning laws. We look forward to working with the new administration to make housing a top priority from day one. Our statement:

A small group of wealthy towns tried to overturn New Jersey's landmark affordable housing law — and lost. Thanks to the law, many more of NJ's municipalities are creating affordable housing than ever before. Learn more in this informative piece by @njspotlightnews.org's @colleenodea.bsky.social:

ICE is terrorizing immigrants—and being used as a tool to discipline labor. A witness in a wage theft case was detained. Immigrant warehouse workers face discrimination. Day laborers and street vendors are being targeted, and so are rapid response networks. My latest.

“Today, more than 400,000 New Jerseyans live in homes created through the Mount Laurel doctrine. Fifty years after the original ruling, it stands as one of the most durable and impactful examples of state constitutional law being used to confront structural inequality.”

Earlier this month, Passaic passed a new law that caps rent increases at 3% and ends vacancy decontrol. Read more about the tremendous work by tenant organizers & @maketheroadnj.bsky.social to protect Passaic's residents from displacement and homelessness: www.nj.com/news/2025/09...

This is what is possible w/ state mandates for inclusion of a fair share of affordable housing, coupled w/ persistent enforcement. Not only inclusion on a building by building level, but town by town. It doesnt just happen…

NEW: As the housing affordability crisis deepens, NJ's 1975 high court decision outlawing exclusionary zoning serves as a powerful model for other states. @jagdavies.bsky.social new piece explores one of the most compelling examples of state constitutional law being used to promote civil rights.

My new piece for @brennancenter.org's @statecourtreport.org looks at how New Jersey built the strongest statewide policy in the U.S. to *require* that every municipality create its fair share of affordable homes: statecourtreport.org/our-work/ana...

NEW: This year marks the 50th anniversary of the NJ Supreme Court's Mount Laurel decision outlawing exclusionary zoning in the state. Jag Davies @fairsharehousing.bsky.social gives a fascinating account of the groundbreaking ruling & long fight over enforcement. statecourtreport.org/our-work/ana...

The best in the nation, thanks largely to the persistance of @fairsharehousing.bsky.social As famous as the Mt Laurel doctrine is among affordable and fair housing advocates, if anything it is under appreciated recent advocates of zoning reform focused mostly on market rate housing and cities.

Thanks to NJ's new law strengthening the Mount Laurel Doctrine, far more towns are creating affordable housing than ever before. Excellent reporting on NJ's affordable housing requirements — the strongest in the U.S. — by @roshanabraham.bsky.social for @nextcity.org & @shelterforce.bsky.social:

The truth is simple: affordable housing benefits everyone. Yet too often, policymakers sabotage NJ's economic resilience by under-funding affordable housing & blocking developments — deciding who belongs, and who doesn’t. Read Rev. Eric Dobson's op-ed: www.burlingtoncountytimes.com/story/opinio...

Tremendous work in Passaic by tenant organizers & @maketheroadnj.bsky.social to protect residents from displacement. This ordinance caps rent increases at 3% and ends vacancy decontrol, which has let landlords raise rents without limits when units become vacant. www.northjersey.com/story/news/p...

A new report shows a sharp increase in homelessness in NJ. With federal cuts looming, state & local leaders must urgently prioritize building more affordable homes, strengthening tenant protections, and addressing the root causes of housing instability. www.njspotlightnews.org/2025/07/nj-h...

Appreciate this discussion. Drives home how zoning reform is *necessary but not sufficient* to fix the housing crisis. Even if Abundance types use it as a Trojan horse for a billionaire-friendly agenda, it's still needed—just insufficient w/out stronger tenant protections & public sector investment.

There might be an abundance of abundance discussions but this one is really special. It brings together expertise on the housing policy with the bigger question of a post-neoliberal agenda. Listen in!

Since we are in new round (it never ends) of what Dems ought to do while fascists power grab, a view from voters in our latest Research Collaborative/Data for Progress national survey (N=1199, July 18-20) TLDR: Dems and independents want Dem candidate who fights for immigrant rights.

To understand how @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social won the mayoral primary by a full 12 points last month, it helps to understand how tenants like Ferdousi Begum and Parveg Hasan decided to go on the offensive against real estate. My first for @nybooks.com, learned tons! www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

Appreciate @inquest.bsky.social publishing this excerpt from my book Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons. @uncpress.bsky.social

New Jersey's senseless cuts to the Affordable Housing Trust Fund are penny-wise but pound-foolish. This is often the only source of funding for smaller, shovel-ready developments. We're calling on Gov. Murphy & legislative leaders to restore the full funding. newjerseymonitor.com/2025/07/03/a...

The data is clear: fines and fees don’t deliver justice — they impose instability. ⛔ For decades, our state & local governments have relied on #FinesAndFees to fill budget gaps – extracting money from people drawn into our criminal, juvenile, traffic, and municipal courts. 🧵

When the Homeland Security funding from the new budget bill kicks in we are going to enter a fundamentally new era of unaccountable secret police that will change American politics and society for a long time. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/welcome-to...

If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029: - $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion - $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million - $8 billion for hiring/retention - Billions more.

NEW: Zohran Mamdani's multi-racial coalition toppled Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday. He won three of five boroughs, the renter class, & "middle income" residents; doing best overall with younger & less frequent voters. My take on Mamdani's Mandate: www.michaellange.nyc/p/the-zohran...

The job of a good message isn't to say what is popular. The job of a good message is to make popular what we need said.

The battle for the future started last night. The Democratic Party political/media elite are going to try to tell you the election didn’t matter, and the victory was only about charisma, rather than a mandate for policy change. The fight only just starting. Buckle up — it’s gonna be a wild ride.

Fear of the New York City subway is a mark of low moral character. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-subway...

i reviewed @brian-goldstone.bsky.social's stunning book There Is No Place For Us. the book will make you very sad and angry but it is a vital and inarguable rebuttal to the american fantasy that the only thing between you and a good life is hard work www.thenation.com/article/soci...

"A wealth of research shows that voters don’t come to their policy preferences organically — they follow the cues of political figures they identify with. It’s not that politicians see where voters stand and try to move toward them, it’s the other way around." stringinamaze.net/p/the-tyrann...

A critically important OpEd from @fairsharehousing.bsky.social: "Affordable housing isn’t charity. It’s infrastructure." www.nj.com/mosaic/2025/...

"If all Democrats do is attempt to match public opinion, they’ll be forever operating within a Republican frame, stuck watching the polls while Republicans move them." stringinamaze.net/p/the-tyrann...

In our latest, @reallandsend.bsky.social and @city.bsky.social speak with ‪Brian Goldstone about how we systematically, and intentionally, undercount the homeless, and Brian’s new book There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America www.patreon.com/posts/129388...

Affordable housing grows the tax base, ensures strong public services, and improves the cost of living & quality of life for *everyone*. In this new op-ed for @nj.com, Rev. Eric Dobson spells out why affordable housing is the foundation for thriving communities:

Incarcerated people have more chronic medical conditions than ever Yet healthcare behind bars is blocked by expensive copays, limited resources, & understaffing – creating a situation in which each year spent in prison takes *2 years* off an individual’s life expectancy

“The housing crisis is not just a crisis of supply and demand. It is a crisis of justice.” Enhanced housing production that fails to combat exclusion is just continued segregation but on a larger scale. Would repeat the tragic wrong of the 1950’s-1960’s.

You can be evicted for: calling 911 too many times; being wrongly accused of shoplifting; having a son with a disability who needs help; being a victim of domestic violence. This is "crime-free housing" in America. A searing, crucial investigation by Sidnee King Pineda: