Kathe Newman and Eric Seymour are the recipients of grant funding from Rutgers REACH initiative and were featured in Rutgers Today. The Rutgers Equity Alliance for Community Health (REACH) is a new presidential program that brings together community-based...
Nadia Mian with Richard Reinhard's article "Transforming Empty Churches into Affordable Housing" was published in the Summer 2023 print version of Planning Magazine and online in May 2023. The article looks examines how zoning reform, partnerships and creative...
The Voorhees Center Annual Report takes a retrospective look at our incredible research associates, affiliated faculty, research and more.
Congratulations to Elana Simon and Cecille de Laurentis on their acceptances to doctoral programs in California for Fall 2023. Elana Simon will be joining USC's urban planning PhD program and Cecille was accepted to UC Berkeley's City Planning PhD program.
RWV Center staff and faculty affiliates presented their research at the Urban Affairs Conference in Nashville, Tennessee this past week. Highlights from the conference include: James DeFilippis’ colloquy presentation in the panel series entitled “Understanding the New...
The Center’s Spring 2023 Newsletter celebrates the achievements of our student research associates, and discusses our latest research, as well as updates from our Faculty affiliates!
Eric Seymour and Taylor Shelton’s article entitled “How Private Equity Landlords Prey on Working-Class Communities of Color,” was published in New Labor Forum. The paper focuses on the Atlanta region and describes the factors contributing to the increase of private...
The RWV Center is excited to welcome Yen-Tyng Chen, Mike Smart and Nancy Wolff to the Center as faculty affiliates. Dr. Yen-Tyng Chen is an Assistant Professor in Public Health at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy. Dr. Chen is a social...
Andrea Restrepo-Mieth recently published an article in Planning Theory and Practice. In this article she examines how planners move from reflection to action in pursuit of institutional change. She introduces the concept of "simple junctures" which are key moments in...
The objective of this report was to better understand how the emergency food system works during a crisis. The research sought to identify networks and points of strength as well as areas to be strengthened to improve resiliency during an emergency.
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.
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.
This report serves as a resource to better understand the landscape of rental housing in the county, patterns and trends, and affordability challenges.