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mount laurel  

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  • Mount Laurel is the term used to describe both a series of New Jersey Supreme Court decisions, as well as the sweeping legal doctrine embodied in those decisions that all municipalities have a constitutional obligation to provide for their fair share of the regional need for affordable housing. The decisions, named after the suburban township in southern New Jersey that was the defendant in the initial 1972 lawsuit, have had a profound effect on affordable housing and land use thinking and policy in the United States. [Source: The Encyclopedia of Housing; Mount Laurel]

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