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6Emptybottles t1_isy4bd6 wrote

That picture could be anywhere along the Central Railroad on the Northside or Southside of route 28 from Elizabeth to Cranford. Then from Cranford to Scotch Plains on the Raritan Valley line. The amount of apartments built in the last 10 years is staggering with no end in sight. The small town vibes of Roselle Park, Cranford, Garwood, and Westfield along the corridor has been changed for better or worse I suppose.

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Jake_FromStateFarm27 t1_isz5shi wrote

Ya well we need more housing in the state in order for prices to go down. It's incredibly expensive for many NJ natives to live in this state unless we all become doctors or engineers. For example as a young teacher It's incredibly difficult to afford living within an hour distance of most school districts, most my friends that are living alone are commuting almost 2 hours just to live semi affordably. Increasing housing supply (which means building more high density housing in the form of apartments or multi family homes) is the one of the few effective ways to combat rising costs of housing.

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murphydcat t1_iszhvum wrote

25+ years ago, New Jersey started to promote "transit friendly development" by concentrating new housing within a 1/4 mi radius of transit hubs like train stations. At that time, auto-dependent suburban sprawl was gobbling up hundreds of acres of open space in NJ each week.

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Pepperzaner t1_it1do9b wrote

There are at least 10 different apartment complexes currently being built in Union County alone. These small towns are about to get a lot more crowded.

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