Eric Seymour spoke at the National League of Cities (NLC) in November 2022 on a panel entitled, "Corporate Buyout of Housing: How It’s Affecting Your City and What You Can Do.” Professor Seymour spoke about differences between the types of corporate investors in...
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ACSP Conference
RWV Center staff and faculty affiliates presented their research at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Conference (ACSP) in Toronto on November 3-5, 2022. Read our newsletter to learn more.
Winter 2022 Newsletter
The Center’s Winter 2022 Newsletter celebrates the achievements of our Voorhees Fellows, and discusses our latest research, as well as updates from our Faculty affiliates!
Jonathan Bonilla Awarded Morgan Stanley Community Development Graduate Fellowship
Jonathan Bonilla, MCRP Candidate and RWV Center researcher '21, '22, received a 2022-23 Morgan Stanley Community Development Graduate Fellowship hosted by the Association for Neighborhood & Housing Development. Jonathan will spend 10- months working with the...
Negotiating Social Futures Conference Recap
Thank you for joining us at the Negotiating Social Futures case study conference. The participants are now hard at work transforming their case studies into book chapters that will be combined into an edited volume. To get the latest updates on our work and the...
Annual Report
The Voorhees Center Annual Report takes a retrospective look at our incredible research associates, affiliated faculty, research and more.
Spring/Summer 2022 Newsletter
The Center’s Winter 2021 Newsletter celebrates the achievements of our Voorhees Fellows, and discusses our latest research, as well as updates from our Faculty affiliates!
Middlesex County Food Dating Label Education Project
This report analyzes the ways in which individual pantries throughout Middlesex County interact with food product date labels, food waste, staff and client education, and the impact that COVID-19 has had on those topics.
Winter 2021 Newsletter
The Center’s Winter 2021 Newsletter celebrates the achievements of our Voorhees Fellows, and discusses our latest research, as well as updates from our Faculty affiliates!
Middlesex County Emergency Food Organizations and Non-Food Services During the Covid Pandemic
This report offers some insight about the non-food challenges that pantries confronted during the pandemic, how pantry staff navigated the demand for these services during the pandemic through July of 2021, and it provides some idea about the type of information that might be useful to pantries moving forward.
Recent Updates
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...