NJ Housing Budget to Build a Thriving NJ
Advocacy Kit

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They raised their family here, but as retirees, they can’t afford to stay and watch their grandchildren grow up here. #BuildaThrivingNJ by making sure everyone can afford to call New Jersey home. Call Governor Murphy and your state legislators today and urge them to make sure the final budget includes full funding for the Affordable Housing Trust Fund and invests in our communities by ensuring tax fairness.

More millennials are living at home longer in NJ than anywhere else in America. #BuildaThrivingNJ by creating more affordable home opportunities. Call Governor Murphy and your state legislators today and urge them to make sure the final budget includes full funding for the Affordable Housing Trust Fund and invests in our communities by ensuring tax fairness.

There’s a lot we need to do to #BuildaThrivingNJ but starting with the basics like where we work and live, making sure that NJ residents can afford to call their state home. That’s why building homes we can afford and revitalizing our communities is the place to start. Call Governor Murphy and your state legislators today and urge them to make sure the final budget includes full funding for the Affordable Housing Trust Fund and invests in our communities by ensuring tax fairness.

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#GovMurphy & members of the #NJLeg should adopt a #NJBudget w/ #taxfairness so we can #BuildaThrivingNJ by creating affordable homes & revitalize the communities where we work & live.

Thank you #NJLeg members who supported funding the Affordable Housing Trust Fund last year. Pls support a #NJBudget w/ #taxfairness for FY2020 so we can fully fund the Trust Fund & #BuildaThrivingNJ.

Tell #GovMurphy & your #NJLeg members to adopt a #NJBudget that makes investments in the Affordable Housing Trust Fund to make #NJ a place everyone can afford to call home.

#NJ is best when our communities are strong. #GovMurphy & members of the #NJLeg should invest in our communities by adopting the #NJbudget w/#taxfairness. @njassemblydems @NJAssemblyGOP @NJSenateDems @senatenj

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Subject header: Take Action: Help Get Investments in YOUR Community

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The state budgets currently under consideration proposes to fully fund the Affordable Housing Trust Fund for the first time in a decade. The proposed budgets would also help revitalize neighborhoods, protect children from lead poisoning, and create healthy homes and communities.

LET’S GET THIS OVER THE FINISH LINE!

Negotiations are currently underway to finalize the state budget by the June 30 deadline. Take action today to ensure the budget makes investments in your community! Call Governor Murphy and your NJ Assemblymembers and Senators today and urge them to support full funding for the Affordable Housing Trust Fund and investments in our communities in the final budget.

To find out how to contact your elected officials, visit www.hcdnnj.org/legislatorlookup.

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For the first time in a decade, the proposed state budget fully funds the Affordable Housing Trust Fund. This is not a done deal! Contact Governor Murphy and your NJ Assemblymembers and Senators today and urge them to support full funding for the Affordable Housing Trust Fund and investments in our communities in the final budget so we can build a thriving NJ.

Sample Letter to the Editor
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I’m proud to call the State of New Jersey home. It’s a wonderful place to live and raise a family. Unfortunately, the number one complaint most people seem to have about NJ though is that it’s too expensive to live here. It’s crushing to see retirees struggle to stay in the communities they’ve lived in their entire lives. Young adults fresh out of college are trying to keep up with student loan payments and the rent. Then there are the young couples starting families in need of an affordable home in a good school district or the single parent trying to provide for their kids while making sure to keep a roof over their heads. It’s tough to make ends meet when there’s not a lot of homes that are affordable for our neighbors.

The proposed state budgets fully fund the Affordable Housing Trust Fund as a way to help create more opportunities for our hard-working families, seniors, and residents living with special needs. I urge the governor and the members of the Legislature make a full investment in the Affordable Housing Trust Fund in the final budget.

Our state cannot thrive if our residents cannot afford to live here. We need to make sure people are able to keep a roof over their heads and food on the table. I’m hopeful that his budget will set a course of action to make investments that will allow NJ to become a place everyone can afford to call home.

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