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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...
Congratulations to Lily Chang on her position as Staff Assistant/Press Assistant for Rep. John Sarbanes
Congratulations to Lily Chang, Voorhees Fellow ’20, who is a Staff Assistant/Press Assistant for Representative John Sarbanes of Maryland's 3rd District. She previously was a Running Start...
Applications for New RWV Public Service Fellowships
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...
NJSOARH Research Presented at Monarch Housing Conference
Eric Seymour and Kathe Newman presented their work on New Jersey’s affordable rental housing at Monarch Housing's Housing as a Human Right conference in October 2022.
Nadia Mian Presents at the Future of Church Property Conference
Nadia Mian presented research on faith-based affordable housing at the Fitzgerald Institute for Real Estate’s Future of Church Property Conference at the University of Notre Dame in November 2022....
Eric Seymour Presents at the National League of Cities
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...
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...
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 &...
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...
Annual Report
The Voorhees Center Annual Report takes a retrospective look at our incredible research associates, affiliated faculty, research and more.