Reports and Publications
Reports, presentations, and projects completed by our researchers.
Public Benefits and Private Profits: Negotiating Public Private Land Development and Equity in New Taipei City and New York City
This report examines rezoning decisions, transfer of development rights (TDR), and density bonusing as planning tools, investigating both the processes and outcomes through which they operate and...
The New Brunswick Emergency Food System
This year, five Ralph W. Voorhees Public Service Fellows worked with Keith Jones and Edmund DeVeaux, City of New Brunswick Division of Human and Community Resources; Joe Light and Jim Kershner,...
Home Mortgage Lending in Camden, NJ 2018-2022 Report
This report examines patterns of home purchase and improvement mortgage originations, applications, and denials in Camden from 2018-2022, with some looks back to 2004 using Home Mortgage Disclosure...
The Politics of Land and Value
Mi Shih and Kathe Newman’s new edited volume, The Politics of Land and Value: Case Studies from Across the Globe, explores global case studies about land, market logic, negotiation and community...
Affordable Housing and Shelter on Faith Land in the United States, 2015-2025
The Affordable Housing and Shelter Built on Faith Land in the United States, 2015-2025 report accompanies the database and examines trends and patterns that emerge from the data. Analyzing 200...
Report Release: Trends in Investor Acquisition of Residential Properties in New Jersey
Will B. Payne and Eric Seymour released a new report, "Trends in Investor Acquisition of Residential Properties in New Jersey." Corporate ownership of single-family homes and other small...
Federally Assisted Housing in New Jersey
This report examines the stock of federally subsidized rental housing units. It first investigates how federal housing priorities have shifted over time, and how those shifts have reshaped the...
Understanding the Role of Housing Navigators
This 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...
New Report on Corporate Ownership of Small Residential Properties in 7 Municipalities in New Jersey
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...
Professors Shih and Newman Publish Article in Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space
As part of a special themed issue on land and value, Professors Mi Shih and Kathe Newman published an article in Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space discussing land value capture and the...
Professors Shih and Newman Publish Themed Journal Issue
Professors Mi Shih and Kathe Newman published a themed issue of Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space (September 2024, Issue 56, Volume 6) focused on land and value.
Monmouth County Rental Housing Profile
This report serves as a resource to better understand the landscape of rental housing in the county, patterns and trends, and affordability challenges.
Hudson County Rental Housing Profile
This report serves as a resource to better understand the landscape of rental housing in the county, patterns and trends, and affordability challenges.
Passaic County Rental Housing Profile
This report serves as a resource to better understand the landscape of rental housing in the county, patterns and trends, and affordability challenges.
Homelessness in New Brunswick and Programs to Address It
This report identifies the challenges that emergency service organizations and their clients are experiencing as they attempt to access, or consider accessing, the existing service infrastructure...