The initiative will now to go to Elizabeth voters to decide by referendum on November 3. “The court’s decision follows decades of New Jersey precedent finding that proposed rent control ordinances are facially constitutional,” said Professor Baltz. The Housing Clinic and Make the Road New Jersey represented 15 separate New Jersey-based housing justice organizations as friends of the court as well as appearing as amici themselves. Bull said, "This decision recognizes, once again, that communities can shape rent control policy to meet local needs. "Elizabeth's voters deserve the opportunity to decide whether restoring the city's longstanding rent control protections is the right approach.