The vote marks a rare bipartisan breakthrough on a salient issue. The bill aims to boost housing supply and prevent Wall Street from buying up single-family homes.

For years, New Jersey's affordable housing system has been more of a scavenger hunt, where application windows open and close in a vacuum with applicants trying to track dozens of separate waiting ...

More than 4,000 people recently applied for a Cherry Hill development with 28 affordable units. In East Hanover in Morris County last year, there were about 9,500 applicants for 45 units. A building ...