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NJSOARH Team Publishes New Article in Cityscape
The article examines the difficulty of enumerating the number of federally subsidized housing units and provides a method of reconciling data sets at the parcel level to identify housing needs and rental stock.
Basic Needs Services for the Unhoused
This report examines basic needs such as mobile showers and laundry, storage and hygiene kits for unhoused and precariously housed populations.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.