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New Jersey Education Association President Joyce Powell (center) talks about the adverse impacts of high housing costs on the state's teachers, bus drivers and children at the September 15 public launch of the Homes for New Jersey campaign. The New Jersey Education serves on the Steering Committee and is among the hundreds of Homes for New Jersey supporters. Ms. Powell is flanked by Homes for New Jersey Chairman Tim Touhey and Steering Committee member Diane Sterner.

Homes for New Jersey Steering Committee member and civil rights activist Keith Jones addresses a packed room at the September 15 rollout of the campaign, noting that the burden of high housing costs falls disproportionately on African American and Hispanic families.

Former New Jersey Governor Jim Florio, a Steering Committee member, talks about the "hard-nosed" economic impacts of high housing costs as a threat to the state's prosperity.

New Jersey State Senator Diane Allen, R-Burlington, speaks about her support for affordable housing for the state's most vulnerable residents and for low- and moderate-income families. Senator Allen is among the several dozen legislators who have officially endorsed the Homes for New Jersey campaign.

Speaking before more than 500 affordable housing supporters at the September 22 Homes for New Jersey rally at the War Memorial in Trenton, New Jersey Assemblyman Reed Gusciora, D-Mercer, talks about the need to prioritize funding for affordable housing. Assemblyman Gusciora is an official endorser of Homes for New Jersey.

Signs like these could be seen at the Homes for New Jersey rally on September 22, when hundreds of citizens struggling with housing costs in New Jersey gathered at the War Memorial in Trenton.

Homes for New Jersey supporters from all over the state attended the September 22 rally with hand-made signs, showing their efforts to convince lawmakers to act now to resolve New Jersey's housing crisis.