Kevin Walsh was not yet born when the first Mount Laurel suit was filed in 1971. He was only 2 years old when it culminated with a 1975 landmark New Jersey Supreme Court decision that established a constitutional obligation to provide affordable housing.
At the time he first heard of Mount Laurel in property class at Rutgers Law School-Camden during the 1990s Walsh did not imagine that it would become his mission to fulfill its mandate: to eradicate exclusionary housing patterns that tend to maroon the poor, especially minorities, in crowded, decaying and often polluted inner-city ghettos.
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