Ralph W. Voorhees Center for Civic Engagement

Ralph W. Voorhees Center for Civic Engagement

Now Accepting 2025-26 Ralph W. Voorhees Public Service Applications

The Ralph W. Voorhees Program in Public Service awards up to five (5) fellowships of $5,000 each annually. Selected students are part of a semester-long collaborative applied research project with a community organization. Fellows meet weekly during class time to work on the studio project, build skills, reflect on community experiences, and meet community leaders from New Jersey and beyond. Students earn three credits in the Fall semester of their junior or senior year and present their project publicly at the end of the term. The studios have worked in a variety of subject areas including community healthcare, housing and foreclosure, ports and goods movement, and urban agriculture and food-related community economic development.

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Ralph W. Voorhees Public Service Fellows New Report Released

Apartment building affordable housing and navigationThis year, five Ralph W. Voorhees Public Service Fellows worked with New
Community Corporation, a community development organization in Newark, New
Jersey, to research housing navigation. Part of a Rutgers Equity Alliance for
Community Health (REACH) community engaged project, the Fellows sought to
better understand the work of contemporary housing navigation.

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RWV Biannual Report

Annual report RWV Center Rutgers Voorhees
The Voorhees Center Biannual Report (July-December 2024) takes a retrospective look at our incredible research associates, affiliated faculty, research and more.

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Corporate Ownership of Small Residential Properties in Seven New Jersey Municipalities

investor owned housing Eric Seymour, Will Payne, Kathe Newman and Lauren Nolan published a new report on Corporate Ownership of Small Residential Properties in Seven New Jersey Municipalities. This report examines  changes in corporate ownership of 1-to-4 unit residential properties in Asbury Park, Millville, Montclair, New Brunswick, Passaic, Phillipsburg, and West New York, New Jersey between 2010 and 2022.

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Housing Conference


The RWV Center, along with Rutgers Equity Alliance for Community Health, Rutgers Law School Center for Law, Inequality and Metropolitan Equity (CLiME) and Rutgers Center for Urban Research and Education held a Housing Conference.

Homelessness in New Brunswick and Programs to Address It

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NJSOARH

This research project explores affordable rental housing in New Jersey with County Reports, a Rent Control report, and scholarly research examining administrative data.

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Rent Control in New Jersey Report

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Housing and Health Equity Cluster

The Ralph W. Voorhees Center is participating in the University’s Housing and Health Equity Cluster working collaboratively with colleagues, programs, and research centers across Rutgers.

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Rutgers REACH

Kathe Newman and Eric Seymour are the recipients of two REACH grants.

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Research & Publications

Center faculty and students conduct research on community development topics such as housing insecurity, community economic development, and community food security.

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Current Projects

Learn more about our current projects.

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The Ralph W. Voorhees Center for Civic Engagement is a collaboration of university faculty, students and community development actors that seeks to enhance educational opportunities, facilitate innovative research, and build community development capacity.

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Highlighting student & faculty news, research and upcoming events.

 

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Research

Center faculty and students conduct research on community development topics such as housing insecurity, community economic development, and community food security.

 

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Research

Center faculty and students conduct research on community development topics such as housing insecurity, community economic development, and community food security.

 

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