Affordable Housing Lawsuits Nobody's Right if Everybody's Wrong

Affordable Housing Lawsuits Nobody's Right if Everybody's Wrong
Why and how is Parsippany being sued for affordable housing, again?

So-called Affordable Housing Laws and mandates have caused many problems, since it's beginning in the Mount Laurel decision involving gentrification of neighborhoods by corporate real estate. People do require living space, and at a ratio to the economic realities available to the population workforce in their wages and other expenses.

Misguided Misinformed past
Parsippany has again become involved as a defendant in another lawsuit, the exact details have not been made transparent. In the past Parsippany had been sued because of actions taken by Attorney John Inglesino and his misguided conflicts of interest being a real estate developers attorney, and our Town Attorney. This caused the waterview landscape, last of the hills of Troy, to be unnecessarily lost and betrayed after a No Rezone grassroots outcome. By COAH's own policies waterview would never have been taken, however another unwanted Mall resulted. Inglesino while in the pay of Parsippany Taxpayers dismissed RD developer without prejudice, rather than with, which allowed RD to return. This also resulted in an addition law by Affordable Housing against Parsippany, due to open advocating against affordable housing.

Where is the Trickle Down when you need it?
Large Mayor Developments must start at the State Level, and then trickle down to assure good planning, not from the bottom up, How else can local from regional housing demands, and needs be decided from local needs ? This local pressure may lead to corruption, and unneeded developments in hopes of avoiding more housing, which is a form of corruption, as what occurred at waterview, and other deals, using the ploy of minimum affordable units and the threat of a lawsuit.

Market will bare but economy won't . Not Affordable
The bottom line is most of these units are "not affordable" they are market, and the market is totally detached from the economic realities of actual income, and the methods of obtaining that income, and the fact we are also subjected to other expenses. medical for example, rising everything costs. These real estate corporations did not create the land, so they gain their power and wealth by rents and fees, not labor, so even if more if not all were actually made affordable, their only situation would be slower steady profits nonetheless.

The system or market is some absurd fantasy, but definitely exploitative by corporate real estate against Middle and Working Class. It's the failure of good government, government as intended and corporate dominance over said government.
As citizen/taxpayers we are denied even basic passive rights of citizenship. 1. Health Care including Dental w/taxes paid already 2. Affordable Housing according to a set amount according to one's actual income 3. Meaningful work of actual need subsidized by government tax..Instead we are subjected to private interest and making the advantaged class already beyond any economy even richer and more corrupted. The cult of the individual has subverted the collective sense of a Nation. 1/10th of the War as Economy Budget alone can pay for all this, and more.

A huge part of the problem is the Jeffersonian notion that" the government that governs best is the one that governs least". While it is true as regards individual liberties, it is absolutely dangerous to think that way as regards economy.

One forgotten part of the story is when former Governor Christie dropped the ball, and completely allowed developers remedy into the equation, without this remedy assuring that State Planning Criteria and Land Use Science mandated, why are local planning board saddled with these decisions. It became a threat or fear rather than a responsibility to be worked out in the best outcome for all.

Stuck with rateable chase leftovers
Parsippany with its allowed over-developed landscapes in pursuit of the tax rateable chase has made itself an outlier of available developed idle properties now deemed in need of redevelopment. However Parsippany has the highest water deficit in the watershed, and requires diversions. Parsippany Neighborhoods also have a right to maintain their characters and prevent more land destruction. Ask; Why were 30 year PILOTs given for 2 warehouses the hottest in the new economy, and not PILOTs for more affordable Housing say 100%-70%. Parsippany suddenly went from the rateable chase to PILOT deals with billionaire developers makes little sense, other than something fishy.

Transparency lacking
Finally in this present lawsuit we must ask; Parsippany is in Highlands Regional Conformance , (though 100% in the Planning Area), which shields municipalities from developers lawsuits, upping the bar, developers would then require suing the State. So what is being kept from the public?

Sincerely