HOBOKEN, NJ – Many know Cheryl Fallick, a candidate in November’s City Council At-Large election on the Independently Together slate, as the longest standing advocate for housing justice in Hoboken, but less known is that her roots in Hoboken activism started over three decades ago protecting Hoboken’s waterfront. Over the years, she has been a mainstay at City Council meetings lobbying on many additional critical issues with long lasting implications on the quality of life for Hoboken’s residents such as overdevelopment, open space, and infrastructure.  With funding already appropriated by the City Council in 2021, Ms. Fallick is calling for the mayor to do the right thing for Hoboken residents with housing insecurities and immediately restore the rent leveling office he defunded last year.

“Housing insecurities have gone unaddressed for too long in Hoboken and we are at risk of losing all of our economic diversity.  Rent control and affordable housing laws are both controversial topics.  I know that.  One less dollar paid in rent is one less dollar received in rent.” says Cheryl Fallick, Hoboken At-Large Council Candidate. “But most don’t realize that without our laws, Hoboken would not be affordable for most residents, not just those on the lower end of the income scale.”

Cheryl has always given her voice to issues and people that need one and once elected to the City Council, she will ensure that affordability issues will be a priority for the first time since Mayor Vezzetti was in office in the 1980’s.

Cheryl’s plan to address housing affordability.  Housing insecurities are not something heard from Hoboken’s governing body other than the same platitude references during elections to building “affordable housing”.  But housing concerns are real, and they effect people of all backgrounds, ages and income levels.  The threat of someone’s housing costs rising dramatically in any year or being told they have to move because their home was being sold is disruptive and unsettling to anyone who experiences it.  Approximately two-thirds of Hoboken residents are renters in homes that range from brownstones to walk-ups and everything in between.  And they all face this risk every day.  Hoboken’s beautiful waterfront and access to New York City increases the demand for housing, which increases pricing, which increases housing insecurities and the threat of being displaced from your home.  Because of this, Hoboken must put resources towards affordability.

Cheryl’s plan to address housing insecurities centers around making policies and programs relating to affordability the priority that it isn’t today.  The components of Cheryl’s plan include:

Protect stabilized rents to minimize quality of life disruptions and the threat of displacement:

Make available and accessible more affordable housing options:

There is no voice in our local government that prioritizes or has the experience to address this critical issue impacting so many of our residents.  All Hoboken residents need and deserve a City Council representative that has spent years researching ways to address housing affordability and who has been offering solutions to meet the need and stem our decades-long ongoing displacement.  Cheryl Fallick will be an unwavering voice on the City Council who will ensure that housing insecurities in Hoboken will no longer be ignored.