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.
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.
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.
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...
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!
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.
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 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 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...
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.
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's research on "review bombing" was featured on Rutgers Today.
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.
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 was interviewed for an article for NPR on storm evacuations. Read the article here.