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.
News
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...
Nadia Mian presents at Monarch Housing Associate’s Housing as a Human Right Conference
Nadia Mian along with Tracey Rogers and Dr. Marc Shi was part of a panel examining gentrification and displacement as part of Monarch Housing Associate's Housing as a Human Right conference on October 3, 2023. Photo credit: Tamara Fleming Photography
Eric Seymour part of the Federal Reserve Community Development Research Series
Eric Seymour was part of a seminar organized by the Federal Reserve Banks of Cleveland and Minneapolis entitled "Keys to Opportunity in the Housing Market: How Financial Models Advance and Constrain Low-Income Communities." The seminar examined how both contracts for...
Rapid Cities Research
As part of the NJSOARH project, RWV Center staff, Kathe Newman, and faculty affiliate, Eric Seymour, have spent the semester conducting field research in several cities around the State.
ACSP 2023
RWV Staff and faculty affiliates presented at the annual Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning conference in Chicago from October 19-21, 2023.
Congratulations to Aretousa Bloom!
Congratulations to Aretousa Bloom for accepting a position as a LSE Fellow in Urban Geography at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Recent Updates
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.
Eric Seymour on NJ State Policy Lab Blog
Eric Seymour published another blog post on the NJ State Policy Lab's blog discussing the use of parcel data to identify trends in corporate owned housing. Read the blog here.
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.








