New Jersey § 52:27d-325

§ 52:27d-325.

Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, a municipality may purchase, lease

or acquire by gift or through the exercise of eminent domain, real property and any estate or interest therein, which the municipal governing body

determines necessary or useful for the construction or rehabilitation of low and moderate

income housing or conversion to low and moderate income housing. The municipality may provide for the acquisition, construction and maintenance of

buildings, structures or other improvements necessary or useful for the provision

of low and moderate income housing, and may provide for the reconstruction, conversion

or rehabilitation of those improvements in such manner as may be necessary or useful

for those purposes. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law regarding the conveyance, sale or

lease of real property by municipalities, the municipal governing body may, by resolution,

authorize the private sale and conveyance or lease of a housing unit or units acquired

or constructed pursuant to this section, where the sale, conveyance or lease is to

a low or moderate income household or nonprofit entity and contains a contractual

guarantee that the housing unit will remain available to low and moderate income households

for a period of at least 30 years.