New Jersey landlords would no longer be able to accept rental assistance from other states relocating their homeless population under a bill that cleared a Senate Committee earlier this week.

If passed, the bill would effectively ban a New York City program that relocates families living in homeless shelters to apartments with a full year's worth of rent paid up front.

About 2,200 families have been placed across 62 New Jersey municipalities. But local officials say families often live in deplorable conditions or in illegal rentals.

Newark and Jersey City have taken Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration to court over the program.