ASSEMBLY HOUSING COMMITTEE

STATEMENT TO

ASSEMBLY, No. 3360

with committee amendments

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

DATED:  DECEMBER 11, 2025

      The Assembly Housing Committee reports favorably and with committee amendments Assembly Bill No. 3360.

As amended, the bill permits municipal governments to, by ordinance, create municipal homelessness trust funds and, by resolution, adopt municipal homeless housing plans. 

      The bill permits a municipality to impose additional fees, fines and penalties for deposit into a municipal homelessness trust fund.  The bill allows five percent of the deposits to be used annually for administrative costs related to the administration of the trust fund, and the remainder of the monies in the fund are required to be used solely for the operation of a homelessness housing grant program in order to provide:

      (1)  for the acquisition, construction, or rehabilitation of housing projects or units within housing projects that supply permanent affordable housing for persons or families experiencing homelessness, including those at risk of homelessness;

      (2)  rental assistance vouchers, including tenant and project based subsidies, for affordable housing projects or units within housing projects that provide permanent affordable housing for persons or families experiencing homelessness, including those at risk of homelessness;

      (3)  supportive services, including payment for temporary accommodation at a hotel, as may be required by persons or families experiencing homelessness in order to obtain or maintain, or both, permanent affordable housing; and

      (4)  prevention services for at risk individuals or families so that they can obtain and maintain permanent affordable housing.

      Grants awarded by the governing body of the municipality are required to be used to support projects that:

      (1)  measurably reduce homelessness;

      (2)  demonstrate government cost savings over time;

      (3)  employ evidence-based models;

      (4)  can be replicated in other municipalities;

      (5)  include an outcome measurement component;

      (6)  are consistent with the municipal homeless housing plan; or

      (7)  fund the acquisition, construction, or rehabilitation projects that will serve persons or families experiencing homelessness for a period of at least 30 years or the equal to the longest term of affordability required by other funding sources.

COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS:

      The committee amended the bill to:

· raise the maximum fee dedicated to the trust funds from three to five dollars;

· limit the application of the fee to any existing fines and penalties collected by the municipality, including, but not limited to, parking tickets and court fines;

· include hotel accommodation as a supportive service offered through the grant program;

· remove a requirement for a municipality to obtain the advice of a municipal homelessness trust fund task force when utilizing monies from the municipal homelessness trust fund; and

· make a technical change.