On August 26 and 27, 2025 just before the deadline, the Housing Compliance Program in the State Court received 6 separate challenges to the Teaneck Township’s Housing Element & Fair Share Plan (HEFSP). The text of those challenges are at 8-27 & 28 Suits Challenging HEFSP
These challenges – if the State agrees – would throw into chaos how Teaneck will seek to meet its affordable housing obligations by March 2026. Hence the Town must first persuade The Housing Dispute Program that in its June 2025 Housing Element and Fair Share Plan (HEFSP) the Township was compliant in meeting its 4th Round housing obligations.
The Affordable Housing Dispute Resolution Program judicial program that must evaluate these challenges has set a hearing date to evaluate those challenges for Monday, October 6.
Late Friday afternoon, October 3, 2025 Township Redevelopment Attorney Michael Ash filed a sharp 9-page response to/critique of the Fair Share Housing Center (FSHC) challenges. It was addressed to retired judge Hon. Thomas C. Miller, AJSC (ret.) at the Affordable Housing Dispute Resolution Program in Trenton.
Attorney Ash 10-3 Response to FSHC Challenge to HEFSP
Just before the scheduled 10/6 hearing, the Fair Share Housing Center responded sharply to the Ash 9-page submission. That response can be accessed at:
Fair Share Housing – 10-6 response to Ash’s 10/3 9-page answer to the 6 Challenges
Again:
1) the following 79-pages incorporate the 6 end of August challenges which now appear on the State’s judicial docket and are most of what Attorney Ash is contesting and the Fair Share Housing Center is defending.
2) a Table of Contents that should allow our readers to select which of the challenges they want to read first.
Click Here below to gain access to all 6 Challenges:
6 Challenges to Teaneck’s Housing Act Compliance
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Table of Contents –
The locations of each of the 6 legal challenges filed in Trenton State Court by page. Once you have clicked into in the 79-page document that includes all 6 Challenges, you can use the following table to guide you to the 6 Challenges filed by Aug 31, 2025 in State Court under Docket #BER-L-000776-25.
Pages 1-28 Challenge filed by the Fair Share Housing Center challenging many parts of Teaneck’s Housing Element and Fair Share Plan
Pages 29-38 Challenge filed by Danielle Kinback, Esq of Prime/Tuvel Law of Hackensack on behalf of the owner/developer of 143 State Street, Teaneck
Pages 39-47 Challenge filed by Danielle Kinback, Esq of Prime, Tuvel Law of Hackensack on behalf of the owner/developer of 827 Teaneck Road, Teaneck
Pages 48-57 Challenge filed by Danielle Kinback, Esq of Prime, Tuvel Law of Hackensack on behalf of the owner/developer of 1387 Hill Street, Teaneck
Pages 58-67 Challenge filed by Danielle Kinback, Esq of Prime, Tuvel Law of Hackensack on behalf of the owner/developer of 54 W. Englewood, Teaneck
Pages 66-79 Challenge filed by Danielle Kinback, Esq of Prime, Tuvel Law of Hackensack on behalf of the Crossroads Companies developer of the American Legion Drive & Cedar Lane AINRs
More Information
This Teaneck Voices website has made a composite document of 5 of the email letters sent to Teaneck Township by Jason Tuvel of Prime, Tuvel Law in behalf of his clients who asre owner/directors of properties said to ne prepared to build projects at their properties that will include a specified # of affordable units They are available if you click below
https://teaneckvoices.com/letters-from-tuvel-proposed-affordable-sites/
