Fair Share Housing Center (FSHC)

Fair Share Housing Center (FSHC), founded in 1975, is the only public interest organization entirely devoted to defending the housing rights of New Jersey’s poor through enforcement of the Mount Laurel Doctrine, the landmark decision that prohibits economic discrimination through exclusionary zoning and requires all towns to provide their “fair share” of their region’s need for affordable housing.

The mission of FSHC is to end discriminatory or exclusionary housing patterns which have deprived the poor of the opportunity to reside in an environment which offers safe, decent, and sanitary housing near employment and educational opportunities.