AREA — Last week, Governor Phil Murphy signed off on a new legislative package that will effectively redefine the state’s approach to affordable housing and change the ways in which local obligations are determined. “This is a victory that is, frankly, decades in the making,” the governor said Wedne...

WESTFIELD — Proposed amendments to New Jersey’s affordablehousing laws could spell trouble for land-poor communities like Westfield, Mayor Shelley Brindle said Tuesday. “Last month, the Assembly passed an affordable-housing bill, and now it is barreling through for a full vote by the Senate on Monda...