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.
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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!
Will Payne, Lauren Nolan and Eric Seymour publish new article in Cityscape
The authors developed a primarily automated process to take the “city”-level dataset from the Picture of Subsidized Households (PSH), which corresponds to the U.S. Census Bureau’s Populated Place Areas, and reassemble it at the scale of a state’s municipalities.
RWV Public Service Fellows present their Mid-term Findings
The RWV Public Service Fellows met with community partner, Unity Square, to present their mid-term findings on how emergency service organizations are able to provide the unhoused population with basic needs such as showers, storage, and hygiene products. The Fellows...
Recent Updates
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.
RWV Center @ ACSP 2024
The RWV Center attended the Association for Collegiate Schools of Planning Conference in Seattle from November 6-9, 2024 and presented their research: Soo Yeon Lim "Making Greenbelt Land Development 'Public' in Seoul Metropolitan Area" Will Payne "Measuring the...
Jovanna Rosen quoted in the Philadelphia Inquirer
Assistant Professor Jovanna Rosen was quoted in the Philadelphia Inquirer about community benefits agreements and the new Sixers arena.
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.