The Rent Is Too Damn High: A Conversation on Advancing Housing Affordability and Housing Stability in the Town of Princeton

Full-time workers in the Princeton-Trenton area need to earn $34.62/hour to afford a rent of $2000/month. With 2-bedroom apartments averaging $3370/month in Princeton and $2000/month in Trenton, working families making the minimum wage, or even double that amount, are finding it harder and harder to afford housing. The trends are only getting worse: Mercer County’s homelessness rate grew 34% this year, rents continue to rise due to a tightening housing market, and pandemic-era benefit programs, including eviction moratoriums and federal emergency rental assistance, have ended.



Hear directly from people in the community working to address these challenges at the local level through affordable housing development, zoning reforms, and other policies that take aim at housing insecurity.



Louise Wilson, Chair, Princeton Planning Board

Michele Tuck-Ponder, former Princeton School Board Member and Township Mayor 

Jade Jang, PU Junior, Princeton GROWS



Moderated by Liz Lempert, Pace Center Community Partner-in-Residence, former Princeton Mayor, and Housing Initiatives of Princeton board chair.

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