Affordable Housing's Future: NJHOMES Atlas & Other Data Tools
At the 111th Annual New Jersey League of Municipalities Conference in Atlantic City, I’m presenting NJHOMES Atlas and other tools built by the DHCR Data Center, in my role as Director of the Data Center. The session is mostly live demonstration: the tools working on real municipal records, and examples of how towns are already using them.
Session Details
- When: Thursday, November 19, 2026, 9:00–10:15 AM
- Where: Room 308/309, Atlantic City Convention Center
From the conference program: NJHOMES Atlas is a new free tool from DCA for creating interactive databases and mapping municipal vacant land for 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act requirements, along with planning and implementation of affordable housing goals. DCA’s Data Center team demonstrates the NJHOMES tools at work, with examples of how towns are using them.
The program lists me as “Gavin Rossi.” It’s Rozzi, with two Zs, which is why gavinrossi.com exists.
What I’m Demonstrating
NJHOMES Atlas maps the vacant parcels owned by New Jersey’s municipalities, built from the State’s tax assessment records the same way for every town. It lets Community Development Block Grant recipients publish the searchable vacant land inventory the federal 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act required of them as of October 1, 2026, and it gives a town a parcel-level starting point for its own affordable housing planning.
Atlas sits inside the NJHOMES Choice Tool, which gathers each municipality’s affordable housing record into one place. I’ll also walk through other work from the Data Center team that municipal officials can put to use.
Continuing Education Credits
The League lists the session for CMFO, CCFO, CTC, CPWM, RMC, QPA, CPA, LGLP, NJCLE, PACLE, Planning, Land Use, Zoning and AHP continuing education credit.
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About Gavin Rozzi
