Housing And Community Development
New Jersey 2016-2017 Regular Session
Prohibits charging prospective tenants of affordable units credit and criminal background check fees unless unit will be available within 30 days. [AB-877]
Prohibits charging prospective tenants of affordable units credit and criminal background check fees unless unit will be available within 30 days.
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Requires certain common interest community associations to publish certain information; requires that homeowners' association contracts for management and maintenance include 24-hour emergency services. [SB-357]
Requires certain common interest community associations to publish certain information; requires that homeowners' association contracts for management and maintenance include 24-hour emergency services.
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New Jersey 2016-2017 Regular Session
Revises definition of "landlord" to include rooming and boarding house owners and operators with regard to ordinances holding landlords to certain standards of responsibility. [SB-481]
Revises definition of "landlord" to include rooming and boarding house owners and operators with regard to ordinances holding landlords to certain standards of responsibility.
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New Jersey 2016-2017 Regular Session
Provides for fair notice and opportunity to contest, or obtain waiver of a repayment of, overpayment of homestead rebate or credit and homestead property tax reimbursement. [SB-299]
Provides for fair notice and opportunity to contest, or obtain waiver of a repayment of, overpayment of homestead rebate or credit and homestead property tax reimbursement.
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GRAND Act Generational Residences and Nurturing Dwellings Act [HB-1260]
GRAND Act Generational Residences and Nurturing Dwellings Act This bill establishes in the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) a program to provide assistance for each fiscal year to up to five eligible nonprofit organizations to expand the supply of specialized housing and social services for qualified elderly relatives, age 60 or older, who are raising a child of whom they are not a parent either by blood or marriage. Nothing in this bill shall preclude a recipient of such assistance from applying for or receiving financial assistance
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New Jersey 2016-2017 Regular Session
Authorizes installation of automatic standby generators in certain residences without zoning or planning board approval. [SB-204]
Authorizes installation of automatic standby generators in certain residences without zoning or planning board approval.
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New Jersey 2016-2017 Regular Session
Requires COAH to credit municipalities with units against fair share affordable housing obligation for certain types of housing; provides certain types of affordable housing units will be credited as two units. [AB-4773]
Requires COAH to credit municipalities with units against fair share affordable housing obligation for certain types of housing; provides certain types of affordable housing units will be credited as two units.
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New Jersey 2016-2017 Regular Session
Requires additional credit against fair share obligation for abandoned property converted to affordable housing. [AB-4774]
Requires additional credit against fair share obligation for abandoned property converted to affordable housing.
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New Jersey 2016-2017 Regular Session
Proposes constitutional amendment to prohibit judiciary from requiring municipalities to accept specific land uses, including affordable housing, unless directed by statute. [ACR-236]
Proposes constitutional amendment to prohibit judiciary from requiring municipalities to accept specific land uses, including affordable housing, unless directed by statute.
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Equal Opportunity for Residential Representation Act [HB-1146]
Equal Opportunity for Residential Representation Act This bill requires the Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD's) Office of Community Planning and Development to carry out a program to make grants to organizations to provide legal services and other related supportive services on behalf of low-income families (including individuals and victims of domestic violence) who reside in a rental dwelling unit and have an income that does not exceed 80% of the median income for the area in which the family resides. The following organizations
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Mortgage Choice Act of 2017 [HB-1153]
Mortgage Choice Act of 2017 (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Truth in Lending Act to specify that neither escrow charges for insurance nor affiliated title charges shall be considered "points and fees" for purposes of determining whether a mortgage is a "high-cost mortgage." (A high-cost mortgage designation restricts the terms of the loan and requires a lender to make certain disclosures to the borrower.)
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Permanently Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act of 2017 [HB-915]
Permanently Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act of 2017 This bill restores and revives the Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act of 2009, and any regulations promulgated pursuant to it, as if the Act had not expired after 2014.
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Permanently Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act of 2017 [S.325]
Permanently Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act of 2017 This bill restores and revives the Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act of 2009, and any regulations promulgated pursuant to it, as if the Act had not expired after 2014.
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Credit Score Competition Act of 2017 [HB-898]
Credit Score Competition Act of 2017 This bill amends the Federal National Mortgage Association Charter Act and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation Act to allow the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac), when determining whether to purchase a residential mortgage, to consider a borrower's credit score only if certain procedural requirements are met with respect to the validation and approval of credit-scoring models. The Federal Housing Finance Agency may, by regulation,
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A bill to clarify that nonprofit organizations such as Habitat for Humanity may accept donated mortgage appraisals, and for other purposes. [S.310]
A bill to clarify that nonprofit organizations such as Habitat for Humanity may accept donated mortgage appraisals, and for other purposes. This bill amends the Truth in Lending Act to deem mortgage appraisal services donated by a fee appraiser to an organization that is eligible to receive tax-deductible charitable contributions to be customary and reasonable.
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Housing Financial Literacy Act of 2017 [HB-851]
Housing Financial Literacy Act of 2017 This bill amends the National Housing Act to modify the discount given by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) on single-family mortgage-insurance premium payments for first-time homebuyers who complete a financial-management counseling program. Under current law, the maximum premium amount for such homebuyers is 2.75% of the original insured principal obligation of the mortgage (compared to 3% for other homebuyers). The bill instead requires that the maximum premium amount for such homebuyers be 25 basis
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Protect Our Schools from Tax Delinquents Act of 2017 [HB-614]
Protect Our Schools from Tax Delinquents Act of 2017 This bill amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to require that each housing assistance payments contract entered into under the Section 8 rental assistance voucher program by a public housing agency (PHA) and the owner of a dwelling unit provide that such owner pay, on a timely basis, all covered taxes validly assessed against the property in which the unit is located. A "covered tax" is any tax under state or local law assessed upon real property or the revenue of which is dedicated for
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HUD Inspection Process and Enforcement Reform Act of 2017 [S.160]
HUD Inspection Process and Enforcement Reform Act of 2017 This bill allows the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to remove certain HUD employees from civil service or to reduce their grade or pay for misconduct or performance. HUD employees may challenge a removal or reduction in grade or pay by filing an appeal with the Merit Systems Protection Board. This bill amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to require an entity receiving section 8 housing assistance payments under a payment contract to: (1) maintain decent, safe,
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Energy Efficient Manufactured Home Act of 2017 [HB-515]
Energy Efficient Manufactured Home Act of 2017 This bill authorizes the Department of Housing and Urban Development to carry out a program to provide grants and loans to assist low-income owners of manufactured homes constructed before December 31, 1994, in decommissioning their dated homes and replacing them with Energy Star-qualified manufactured or modular homes. Grants or loans may be made only to a low-income owner of a dated manufactured home who has used that home as a primary residence on a year-round basis for at least the preceding 24
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Safe Recovery and Community Empowerment Act [HB-472]
Safe Recovery and Community Empowerment Act This bill amends the Fair Housing Act to provide that nothing in federal law relating to protections for persons with disabilities prohibits a local, state, or federal government body from: requiring a reasonable minimum distance between residential recovery facilities within a particular area zoned for residential housing if such requirement is necessary to preserve the residential character of the area and allows for some of such facilities to be located within such area; and requiring that such a facility
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