The town council has decided to spend up to $25,000 for a study to see whether the Mercer Mobile Home park can be acquired to meet the State’s affordable housing requirements. Acquiring the trailer park would add to the township’s existing 100 affordable housing credits, some of which have been met in the past by paying other towns to build housing. The study would determine how many of the park’s 147 units would qualify for the affordable housing credits, and would be paid for by money set aside for affordable housing and developer fees. Mayor David Fried has said that the township would not manage the park if acquired but may hire a non-profit group to manage it, which would not cost the taxpayers anything.