Beyond the Mt. Laurel Doctrine (In Brief) From Forty Years of Failure to A Blueprint for Sucess

This episode brings together the various major interest groups in the state and shows how each will be able to see the project proposed will be a win for their interests.

This episode contains the steps to be taken to resolve the problem of urban poverty in New Jersey. It will empower individual people to participate voluntarily in a program that will enable them to take control of vital elements of their lives and seamlessly integrate themselves into the socioeconomic life of the state.

This episode explores the distribution of powers within New Jersey Government and presents the attempt of the Supreme Court to justify ignoring the constitutional constraints explicit in the Constitution. We also point to the proper roles of both the Legislature and the public in forging a strong public consensus that will support needed legislative action.

This episode directly confronts the idea of a "constitutional obligation" to provide affordable housing, demonstrating beyond any doubt that there is no constitutional basis in the words of the Supreme Court itself. This doesn't deny the need for housing but does demonstrate the lack of judicial authority to order it when they did.

This episode takes on the idea of "exclusionary zoning" and shows that, while it sounds like something bad, it has no connection to reality. Zoning doesn't control groups of people. It only controls the development of buildings and land. We show that the cost of housing has no connection to zoning and it's really location that shapes the housing market. "Exclusionary zoning" is really just a rheto...

In this episode we begin tackling the false ideas that protect the Mt. Laurel Doctrine. We start here with the idea of a "Housing Crisis" in New Jersey. We provide some historical context and reveal some of the most extraordinary miscalculations of housing and future population growth you can find anywhere that prove the Housing Crisis never happened. We also talk about the uncertain aspects of th...

This episode outlines a solution to the problem of affordable housing in New Jersey using a non-adversarial method based on careful research that identifies the failings of the existing process and introduces a new method of solving complex problems commonly seen as having no solution.