New Jersey § 52:27d-310

§ 52:27d-310.

A municipality's housing element shall be designed to achieve the goal of access to

affordable housing to meet present and prospective housing needs, with particular

attention to low and moderate income housing, and shall contain at least: a. An inventory of the municipality's housing stock by age, condition, purchase or

rental value, occupancy characteristics, and type, including the number of units affordable

to low and moderate income households and substandard housing capable of being rehabilitated,

and in conducting this inventory the municipality shall have access, on a confidential

basis for the sole purpose of conducting the inventory, to all necessary property

tax assessment records and information in the assessor's office, including but not

limited to the property record cards; b. A projection of the municipality's housing stock, including the probable future

construction of low and moderate income housing, for the next ten years, taking into

account, but not necessarily limited to, construction permits issued, approvals of

applications for development and probable residential development of lands; c. An analysis of the municipality's demographic characteristics, including but not

necessarily limited to, household size, income level and age; d. An analysis of the existing and probable future employment characteristics of the

municipality; e. A determination of the municipality's present and prospective fair share for low

and moderate income housing and its capacity to accommodate its present and prospective

housing needs, including its fair share for low and moderate income housing; f. A consideration of the lands that are most appropriate for construction of low

and moderate income housing and of the existing structures most appropriate for conversion

to, or rehabilitation for, low and moderate income housing, including a consideration

of lands of developers who have expressed a commitment to provide low and moderate

income housing ; and g. An analysis of the extent to which municipal ordinances and other local factors

advance or detract from the goal of preserving multigenerational family continuity

as expressed in the recommendations of the Multigenerational Family Housing Continuity

Commission, adopted pursuant to paragraph (1) of subsection f. of section 1 of P.L.2021, c. 273 ( C.52:27D-329.20 ) .