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.
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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.
Spring/Summer 2021 Newsletter
The Center’s Spring/Summer 2021 Newsletter discusses our latest research, and celebrates the achievements of our Voorhees Fellow Alumni, and Faculty affiliates!
Recent Updates
NJSOARH Team Publishes New Article in Cityscape
Shiloh Deitz, Will B. Payne, Eric Seymour, Kathe Newman and Lauren Nolan from the New Jersey State of Affordable Rental Housing (NJSOARH) team recently published a new article entitled "Local Landscapes of Assisted Housing: Reconciling Layered and Imprecise...
Basic Needs Services for the Unhoused
2024 This report examines basic needs such as mobile showers and laundry, storage and hygiene kits for unhoused and precariously housed populations. The objective of the project was to identify creative ways that organizations across the country are supporting...
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.