This report serves as a resource to better understand the landscape of rental housing in the county, patterns and trends, and affordability challenges.
News
Spring 2024 Newsletter
The Center’s Spring 2024 Newsletter celebrates the achievements of our student research associates, and discusses our latest research, as well as updates from our Faculty affiliates!
NJSOARH Team Publishes New Article in Cityscape
The article examines the difficulty of enumerating the number of federally subsidized housing units and provides a method of reconciling data sets at the parcel level to identify housing needs and rental stock.
Basic Needs Services for the Unhoused
This report examines basic needs such as mobile showers and laundry, storage and hygiene kits for unhoused and precariously housed populations.
Cara Cuite to participate in FoodTech Conference
RWV Center faculty affiliate Cara Cuite is participating in the inaugural Middlesex County FoodTech Conference on Tuesday March 26, 2024, entitled "Feeding Futures: Tackling Food Insecurity Together." Dr. Cuite will be discussing partnership and funding opportunities....
Andrea Restrepo-Mieth Receives Grant from Rutgers Global
RWV faculty affiliate Andrea Restrepo-Mieth received a $15,000 grant from Rutgers Global to support her project: Environmental planning under a changing climate in Galápagos, Ecuador: Institutional legacies, organizational arrangements, and community mobilization.
Rent Control in New Jersey Report
In this report, we trace the history of rent control in New Jersey and describe it today, and we offer a set of ideas for the future.
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.
Now Accepting Applications for the 2024-2025 Ralph W. Voorhees Public Service Fellowship
The Ralph W. Voorhees Public Service Fellowship awards up to five (5) fellowships of $5,000 each annually and is open to undergraduate students from any major in any school at Rutgers NB. Fellows work on a civically engaged applied research project in the Fall...
Winter 2023 Newsletter
The Center’s Winter 2023 Newsletter celebrates the achievements of our student research associates, and discusses our latest research, as well as updates from our Faculty affiliates!
Recent Updates
Nadia Mian presented at the Monarch Housing Conference
Nadia Mian was part of a panel along with Victoria Barreca from Enterprise Community Partners, and Sajan Philip from Cardinal Impact Advisors discussing "Having Faith in your Community" at the Monarch Housing as a Human Right Conference in October 2024.
Will Payne featured on Rutgers Today
Will Payne's research on "review bombing" was featured on Rutgers Today.
Kathe Newman and Ben Gerlofs Appointed New Book Review Editors for the Journal of Urban Affairs
Kathe Newman and Ben Gerlofs (University of Hong Kong) were named the new book review editors for the Journal of Urban Affairs, a journal of the Urban Affairs Association.
Housing Conference and Photos
The Rutgers Equity Alliance for Community Health (REACH) in collaboration with the Ralph W. Voorhees Center for Civic Engagement, the Rutgers Center on Law, Inequality and Metropolitan Equity, and the Rutgers Center for Urban Research and Education hosted a hybrid...
Cara Cuite on NPR
Cara Cuite was interviewed for an article for NPR on storm evacuations. Read the article here.