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Kathe Newman and Eric Seymour receive grant funding from Rutgers REACH Initiative
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...
Nadia Mian publishes article on faith-based development in Planning Magazine
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...
Annual Report 2022-2023
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
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...
RWV Center Staff and Faculty Affiliates present at the UAA Conference
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’...
Spring 2023 Newsletter
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 publishes article in New Labor Forum
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...
New Faculty Affiliates Join the Center
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....
Andrea Restrepo-Mieth publishes article in Planning Theory and Practice
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...
Mapping Networks, Resources, Gaps and Vulnerabilities in Middlesex County’s Emergency Food System During an Emergency
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.
Elana Simon joins Rutgers CLiME
Congratulations to former RWV Center research association, Elana Simon, on her new position! Elana is an urban planner, data scientist, and writer joining CLiME as a Senior Research Fellow. Elana...
Bob Lake publishes article in Economy and Space
Bob Lake published a new article in Economy and Space on land value. The article asks the question: "what is value and how does it attain its coercive power over urban life?" Citation: Lake, Robert....
Mi Shih publishes article in Economy and Space
Professor Mi Shih with Ying-Hui Chiang latest paper in Economy and Space examines the co-constitutive relationship between density techniques, their depoliticization effects, and heightened land...
Nadia Mian publishes article in Shelterforce on the Black Church and Property Development
Nadia Mian published an article on the Black Church and property development in Shelterforce. The article looks at how Black congregations are building affordable housing on their property to soften...
Congratulations to Aretousa Bloom on her position as Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London
The RWV Center is excited to celebrate Aretousa Bloom's (Bloustein PhD '19) new position as Lecturer in Economic Geography (Teaching & Scholarship) at the School of Geography, Queen Mary...