The need for new, creative, concrete solutions to the affordable housing crisis demands immediate attention at every level of government, so it is certainly laudable that Hudson County Executive Craig Guy has put together an advisory task force on the issue.
We fear, though, that in its makeup, Guy is missing an opportunity to reach out to and include the experiences, voices and ideas of people actually affected by the crisis.
Chaired by former Jersey City Corporation Counsel Bill Matsikoudis, who wrote a policy paper on the issue when he unsuccessfully ran for mayor in 2017, the task force’s other members are: