Council on Affordable Housing

The latest fight raging over affordable housing is whether or not municipalities should have to retroactively provide enough homes to cover a 16-year period where the effort has drifted.

Judges setting towns' affordable housing quotas won't consider a 16-year gap when no rules were in place. That could cut the number of new units needed by half.

New Jersey's top court ruled Tuesday that judges should take over the enforcement of state affordable housing requirements because the state government under Gov. Chris Christie and his predecessors has failed to do it.

New Jersey's Council on Affordable Housing says Gov. Chris Christie's administration can seize $140 million that towns had set aside for housing projects for lower-income people.