There is also a stigma about what affordable housing constitutes. They're high-quality projects that can be integrated in the neighborhood, and they service people we depend on: child-care workers, teachers, health-care workers.

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I think that the affordable-housing problem in New Jersey has become so dire and become so widespread that we are seeing a broader group of people supporting this. The problem has become broader so the coalition has become broader.

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We want to make affordable housing an issue in the 2005 gubernatorial race. And we want to hold policymakers and lawmakers responsible for needed changes to the law. We want results. This coalition is not going to go away after Nov. 8.

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