New Jersey State of Affordable Rental Housing

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About NJSOARH

The New Jersey State of Affordable Housing (NJSOARH) project seeks to understand the state of rental housing affordable to low-income and especially very low-income households in New Jersey and the processes that shape housing insecurity. Though the availability of affordable, stable, high-quality housing is widely recognized as a critical challenge, we have an incomplete view of the existing landscape of rental housing affordable to lower income households, the lived experience of low-income renters, and the complex and often interwoven processes that shape housing insecurity in NJ.  

Guided by an Advisory Committee of stakeholders and practitioners along with community research partners, the team is gathering, organizing, and mapping information about rental housing affordable to lower-income households and conducting interviews and focus groups with people who know affordable rental housing and the challenges lower income households face in accessing, living in, and retaining it. The team will share the work through reports, briefs, tools, trainings, and webinars developed with and targeted to a variety of stakeholder groups.

 

Project Team

Eric Seymour

Eric Seymour

Co-Principal Investigator

Kathe Newman

Kathe Newman

Co-Principal Investigator

Will Payne

Will Payne

Co-Principal Investigator

Lauren Nolan

Lauren Nolan

Research Assistant

Nadia A. Mian

Nadia A. Mian

Senior Program Director

Nirupama Vidyarthi

Nirupama Vidyarthi

Research Associate

Advisory Committee

The Advisory Committee guides research design, outputs (reports, tools, webinars, trainings), and communications; networks the research team and facilitates interviews and focus groups, and shapes the process for and selection of rapid research projects.

 

Holly City Development Corporation
Housing and Community Development Network of New Jersey
Latino Action Network Foundation
Monarch Housing
New Jersey Citizen Action
NORWESCAP

Former Researchers

Olubori Agboola

Olubori Agboola

Research Assistant

Jonathan Francisco Bonilla

Jonathan Francisco Bonilla

Research Assistant

Lily Chang

Lily Chang

Undergraduate Honors Program

Esther Colon

Esther Colon

Research Assistant

Erica Copeland

Erica Copeland

Research Assistant

Shiloh Deitz

Shiloh Deitz

Post-Doctoral Associate

William Downie

William Downie

Research Assistant

Andrea (Zixuan) He

Andrea (Zixuan) He

Graduate Research Assistant

Mila Hamilton

Mila Hamilton

Research Assistant

Ananya Kashyup

Ananya Kashyup

Graduate Research Assistant

Smriti Singh

Smriti Singh

Research Assistant

John Fidel Klarke Smith

John Fidel Klarke Smith

Research Assistant

Melisa Tekin

Melisa Tekin

Design Lead for NJSOARH Rent Control Report

Natalie Tse

Natalie Tse

Graduate Research Assistant

Ooha Uppalapati

Ooha Uppalapati

Graduate Research Assistant