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.
Project Team
![Eric Seymour](https://rwv.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/ESeymour.jpg)
Eric Seymour
Co-Principal Investigator
![Kathe Newman](https://rwv.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/KNewman.jpg)
Kathe Newman
Co-Principal Investigator
![Will Payne](https://rwv.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/WPayne.jpg)
Will Payne
Co-Principal Investigator
![Shiloh Deitz](https://rwv.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/SDeitz.jpg)
Shiloh Deitz
Post-Doctoral Associate
![Lauren Nolan](https://rwv.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/LNolan.jpg)
Lauren Nolan
Research Assistant
![Nadia A. Mian](https://rwv.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Nadia-Mian-2-scaled.jpg)
Nadia A. Mian
Senior Program Director
Advisory Committee
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
![Olubori Agboola](https://rwv.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/OAgboola.jpg)
Olubori Agboola
Research Assistant
![Jonathan Francisco Bonilla](https://rwv.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/JFrancisco-Bonilla.jpg)
Jonathan Francisco Bonilla
Research Assistant
![Lily Chang](https://rwv.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Lily-Bio-Pic.jpg)
Lily Chang
Undergraduate Honors Program
![Esther Colon](https://rwv.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Esther-Colon-2.jpg)
Esther Colon
Research Assistant
![Erica Copeland](https://rwv.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/ECopeland.jpg)
Erica Copeland
Research Assistant
![William Downie](https://rwv.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/WDownie.jpg)
William Downie
Research Assistant
![Mila Hamilton](https://rwv.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/MHamilton.jpg)
Mila Hamilton
Research Assistant
![Andrea (Zixuan) He](https://rwv.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Andrea-headshot.jpg)
Andrea (Zixuan) He
Graduate Research Assistant
![Ananya Kashyup](https://rwv.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Photo_AnanyaKashyap.jpg)
Ananya Kashyup
Graduate Research Assistant
![Smriti Singh](https://rwv.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/SSingh.jpg)
Smriti Singh
Research Assistant
![John Fidel Klarke Smith](https://rwv.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/JSmith.jpg)
John Fidel Klarke Smith
Research Assistant
![Melisa Tekin](https://rwv.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/RWV-Center-1.jpg)
Melisa Tekin
Design Lead for NJSOARH Rent Control Report
![Natalie Tse](https://rwv.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Natalie-Tse-headshot.jpg)
Natalie Tse
Graduate Research Assistant
![Ooha Uppalapati](https://rwv.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Ooha_headshot-scaled.jpg)
Ooha Uppalapati
Graduate Research Assistant