NJ Realtors® Meets with Members of Congress

Every year in early spring the New Jersey Realtors® Leadership Team holds meetings with our Congressional delegation to talk about Realtor® issues affecting our membership. The meetings, held with either the Member of Congress or their senior staff, are critical to establishing and maintaining relationships that allow us to affect change on federal issues.

This year, we focused on talking about housing supply and affordability, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development funding for fair housing initiatives, promoting the National Association of Realtors® comprehensive research, lead paint funding, and the possibility of using Section 8 funds for homeownership.

Our national priorities overlap with our priorities here in New Jersey, especially when talking about access to homeownership, increasing housing inventory, and streamlining affordable housing programs in today’s market. We spoke with the offices about incentivizing more owners to sell their homes, attracting private investment for building and rehabilitating owneroccupied homes and updating the capital gains tax exclusion.

We are thankful for the Members of Congress and their staff we were able to meet with, including:

• Sen. Cory Booker

• Sen. Robert Menendez

• Rep. Donald Norcross, NJ – 1

• Rep. Jeff Van Drew, NJ – 2

• Rep. Andy Kim, NJ – 3

• Rep. Chris Smith, NJ – 4

• Rep. Josh Gottheimer, NJ – 5

• Rep. Frank Pallone, NJ – 6

• Rep.Tom Kean Jr., NJ – 7

• Rep. Rob Menendez, NJ – 8

• Rep. Bill Pascrell, NJ – 9

• Rep. Donald Payne, Jr., NJ – 10

• Rep. Mikie Sherrill, NJ – 11

We look forward to continuing these very productive conversations as we move farther into 2023 and beyond.