About NJSOARH
The New Jersey State of Affordable Housing (NJSOARH) project seeks to understand the state of rental housing affordable to low-income and especially very low-income households in New Jersey and the processes that shape housing insecurity. Though the availability of affordable, stable, high-quality housing is widely recognized as a critical challenge, we have an incomplete view of the existing landscape of rental housing affordable to lower income households, the lived experience of low-income renters, and the complex and often interwoven processes that shape housing insecurity in NJ.
Guided by an Advisory Committee of stakeholders and practitioners along with community research partners, the team is gathering, organizing, and mapping information about rental housing affordable to lower-income households and conducting interviews and focus groups with people who know affordable rental housing and the challenges lower income households face in accessing, living in, and retaining it. The team will share the work through reports, briefs, tools, trainings, and webinars developed with and targeted to a variety of stakeholder groups.
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Project Team

Eric Seymour
Co-Principal Investigator

Kathe Newman
Co-Principal Investigator

Will Payne
Co-Principal Investigator

Shiloh Deitz
Post-Doctoral Associate

Lauren Nolan
Research Assistant

Nadia A. Mian
Senior Program Director

Mila Hamilton
Research Assistant

Smriti Singh
Research Assistant

John Fidel Klarke Smith
Research Assistant

Olubori Agboola
Research Assistant
Advisory Committee
The Advisory Committee guides research design, outputs (reports, tools, webinars, trainings), and communications; networks the research team and facilitates interviews and focus groups, and shapes the process for and selection of rapid research projects.
Holly City Development Corporation
Housing and Community Development Network of New Jersey
Latino Action Network Foundation
Monarch Housing
New Jersey Citizen Action
NORWESCAP
Former Researchers

Jonathan Francisco Bonilla
Research Assistant

Lily Chang
Undergraduate Honors Program

Esther Colon
Research Assistant

Erica Copeland
Research Assistant

William Downie
Research Assistant

Andrea (Zixuan) He
Graduate Research Assistant

Ananya Kashyup
Graduate Research Assistant

Natalie Tse
Graduate Research Assistant

Ooha Uppalapati
Graduate Research Assistant