NJRC Testifies at Statehouse for Fair Housing Reform and No Return of RCAs

Twenty NJRC members attended Assemblyman Jerry Green's committee on Housing & Local Government to hear three NJRC clergy leaders testify. The committee is looking into the current COAH (Council on Affordable Housing) controversy.

NJRC President Rev. R. Lenton Buffalo Jr. of the Union Baptist Church of Elizabeth, Rev. Charles Stephens of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Washington Crossing in Titusville (Hopewell), and Rev. Eric Wallace of the New Life Cathedral in Burlington City all spoke out forcefully for affordable housing and against the abolished RCA (Regional Contribution Agreement) system that has perpetuated our state's extreme economic and racial segregation. Joining them in their testimony was Mayor Brian Levine of Franklin Township who also spoke to the diverse housing opportunities in his own township and against the RCA system.

You can read the complete testimony (pdf file) here.