Analysis: Sherrill’s First Budget Recasts Property-Tax Relief Priorities

Gov. Mikie Sherrill and lawmakers plan to spend a record amount of state funding for direct property tax relief, money to homeowners that comes on the heels of the latest big increase in New Jersey’s notorious annual local levies.

In the face of that cash infusion, though, many senior homeowners are being cut from the Stay NJ relief program as government itself tightens spending.