The Asbury Park Affordable Housing Coalition [APAHC] issued a news release today calling for residents to support the coalition’s proposed rent control ordinance. A virtual public hearing via Zoom before the City Council is scheduled for tonight, Dec. 22, at 6 pm. APAHC’s news release, printed in full below, includes call in information. If the […]

The Asbury Park Affordable Housing Coalition [APAHC] — which organized the successful effort to put their proposed rent control ordinance on the ballot for a public vote early next year — is holding a virtual community conversation on the issue via Zoom on Wednesday, Dec. 16 at 5 pm. The APAHC gathered enough signatures to […]

With a referendum on track for February or March for a vote on a proposed rent control ordinance backed by the Asbury Park Affordable House Coalition [APAHC], a coalition of landlords today issued their critique of the proposal in a position paper. The City Council first has the opportunity to vote to approve the proposed […]

To the Editor, Asbury Park Sun: If you have any inclination to support essential workers or black lives after living through the pandemic, the election, and the racial justice reckoning of 2020, support the Rent Stabilization Petition in Asbury Park. The Petition for Rent Stabilization was signed by over 700 residents. A public hearing is […]

Rent control advocates have submitted enough valid signatures on a petition to hold a referendum asking voters to enact a rent control ordinance in Asbury Park, according to a news release from the Asbury Park Affordable Housing Coalition (APAHC) The City Council, however, is first required under state law to consider the proposed ordinance at […]

A group of Neptune property owners withdrew their petition seeking a referendum to repeal the township’s new rent control ordinance after the discovery that a number of signatures on the petition may have been forged. Blaming a vendor retained to collect the signatures, a representative of the group said today that they would refer the matter […]

Rental properties in Ocean Grove and Neptune Township that contain three or four units are no longer subject to rent control. The Neptune Township Committee [pictured above] on Monday approved an amendment to increase the threshold for minimum exemptions under the township’s rent control ordinance and established a rent leveling board to oversee rent control regulations. […]

In an effort to repeal the rent control ordinance that went into effect last month in Ocean Grove and Neptune Township, a committee of property owners has submitted a petition to have a referendum added to the November ballot. Although other municipalities allow a binding referendum by petition under the state’s Faulkner Act, Neptune Township does […]

The Neptune Township Committee has plans to change a rent control ordinance that was approved just two weeks ago. Members of the committee [shown above] introduced an amendment to the measure at their Monday meeting that exempts any dwelling with four or less rental units from the ordinance. The original language of the ordinance exempted […]

Emotions ran high during last night’s two hour public hearing on a rent control ordinance the Neptune Township Committee passed 5-0, with one committee member using an expletive on the record. Under the ordinance, rent increases in Ocean Grove and Neptune will be capped by the regional consumer price index. A rent leveling board will […]