NJ Gubernatorial Candidates Commit to Work with New Jersey Together
- New Jersey Together
- May 1
- 2 min read
Updated: May 13
April 27, 2025 - Nearly 200 leaders from New Jersey Together (NJT) gathered to call on the gubernatorial candidates to commit to their agenda on affordable housing and criminal justice reform. NJT is a strictly non-partisan citizens power organization comprised of over 50 member congregations and organizations. Over the past 6 weeks, teams of leaders met with five of the leading candidates to share their ideas about the most pressing issues facing New Jersey and to point to solutions that are achievable if the next governor leads with focus and clarity.
"Everyone knows that the housing crisis is key to so many challenges in our state. And yet, 50 years after the Mt. Laurel decision, the situation is worse than ever,” described Rev. Dr. Alonzo Perry, Sr., Jersey City Together Co-Chair. "We know what works because our sister organizations in East Brooklyn, the South Bronx, Baltimore, DC, and, now Chicago, have pioneered major efforts to create new critical masses of affordable homes and apartments.”
Representative Mikie Sherrill and Mayors, Ras Baraka and Steven Fulop, attended the assembly and strongly committed to work with New Jersey Together to act on the organization’s top priorities. Specifically they committed to:
Identify and assemble sites and subsidies for new affordable housing development
Support expanding Cohome, a model of humane housing for adults with disabilities, to address the challenge faced by aging parents caring for adult children who worry about what will happen when they can no longer provide that care or pass on
Acting to end technical parole violations (traffic tickets, missed meetings, unpaid fines) that can lead to a person being returned to prison.
NJT committed to continue to organize to make these issues central to the next administration’s efforts no matter who is elected.
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For detailed information, please see copy of video recording here.