Prof. Orfield Successful in Case Before New Jersey Supreme Court

The New Jersey Supreme Court invalidated a new housing allocation formula proposed by the Christie Administration under the New Jersey Fair Housing Act. Professor Myron Orfield, who filed an amicus curiae on behalf of Pennsauken and Montclair townships, argued that these new allocation formulas disadvantaged racially diverse older suburbs of New Jersey by allowing affluent bedroom communities to provide less than their constitutional fair share obligation established by the New Jersey Supreme Court in its Mount Laurel decision. The New Jersey Supreme Court agreed with Orfield's position.