[citation needed] As of January 2006, 287 of New Jersey's 566 municipalities were part of the COAH process, and another 78 were under the court's jurisdiction.

[3] On March 10, 2015, the New Jersey Supreme Court divested COAH of jurisdiction of municipal housing plans.

[4][5] On February 9, 2010, Governor Chris Christie had suspended COAH and appointed a committee in preparation to dismantle it.

[6][7] The Supreme Court ruled that it was not within his power "“to abolish independent agencies that were created by legislative action”.

[10] When asked, the agency refused to provide the contract for the Rutgers University professor who prepared the plan and claimed that the documents used to calculate the new guidelines had been lost, leading an affordable housing group to offer a $1,000 reward.