New Jersey is restoring some money to the trust fund for building affordable housing projects after it was stripped of most of its funding during state budget negotiations earlier this year.

The state’s $125 million Affordable Housing Trust Fund was reduced to just $5 million in June, causing an uproar among affordable housing developers and some local politicians who were relying on the funding to address a shortage of low-priced homes in the state.

Now, the NJ Department of Community Affairs told Gothamist that it has restored $45 million to the affordable housing trust fund. The agency said it’s enough to fund 10 to 20 affordable housing projects, and that $10 million of the pot will be reserved for Habitat for Humanity, which builds affordable homes for low- and medium-income familie

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