in our Spotlight on Business Report tonight a judge has denied a request by more than two dozen towns to delay the start of New Jersey's new affordable housing law the 26 towns led by Montvale and Bergen County argue that the law requiring each municipality to build a certain number of affordable housing units over the next 10 years puts too much of a burden on their communities but in his ruling Mercer County Superior Court Judge Robert lugie said delaying the law would be to the detriment of the state's low and modate income households the group of towns say they'll appeal the judge's denial while they continue to argue the law signed by Governor Murphy last March is unconstitutional meanwhile New Jersey's attorney general and housing Advocates have brought a motion to dismiss the town's lawsuit the Court is set to hear oral arguments in that case on January 31st that's also the deadline by the way for towns to either accept or challenge the number of units the state says they have to build according to the state there's a need for about 85 5,000 new affordable homes and another 65,000 needing to be rehabbed over the next decade to meet the demand