The five priority areas

Housing goals for the administration; tracking and accelerating production, referencing Executive Order No. 5 (2026) and its Cross-Agency Permitting Team; developing agency-owned unutilised, surplus or underutilised property into housing; coordinating funding and financing across agencies; and inventorying and increasing access to existing affordable and workforce units.

Read that list against a community association's concerns and the mismatch is obvious. It is a production agenda. Nothing in it addresses the governance, reserve funding, assessment or insurance pressures that are actually generating complaints from New Jersey owners in 2026.

What the order does not say — and this is the finding

We read Executive Order No. 17 in full. It does not mention condominiums, cooperatives, homeowners associations, common interest communities, master deeds, restrictive covenants or accessory dwelling units anywhere.

Nothing states that associations are within the Council's scope, and nothing should be inferred about its intentions from the housing agenda generally.

The recommendations may never be public

Paragraph 8 of the order makes all resulting reports and recommendations "advisory, consultative, and deliberative… confidential, non-public, and not subject to the Open Public Records Act." Paragraph 10 creates no private right of action.

So even after September 24 there may be no document to read. That is worth stating up front, because it means the absence of published recommendations about associations will not tell anyone whether associations were discussed.

Where an association-relevant outcome could still emerge

One route, and it is in the order's own text: the 60-day agency reports on "duplicative, outdated, obsolete, or conflicting rules, regulations, and requirements that slow or hinder housing development."

DCA's own regulatory estate includes N.J.A.C. 5:26 — the PREDFDA rules, including the Radburn election provisions partly reversed by the Appellate Division in February 2024 and readopted without change in March 2025. A rule partly invalidated by a court and never amended is, on any reading, an obsolete and conflicting requirement.

Whether anyone identified it that way is unknowable, for the reason above.

What the administration has said about associations

Nothing that we found. The June 2026 announcements accompanying the housing agenda — a second NJ HOMES cohort, a housing-credit auction, a reduction in Affordable Housing Trust Fund diversions, rapid re-housing funding — contain nothing on condominiums, associations, deed restrictions or ADUs.

The Governor's one quoted line on process: "We simply cannot afford 10-year studies while housing becomes more and more unaffordable."

The honest summary

A New Jersey board watching for relief on reserve funding or assessments should not be watching this. The Council's remit is housing production; the pending association bills sit in two legislative committees that have not taken them up; and the one agency with jurisdiction over association rules says it does not oversee association compliance.