January 5, 2024 | In the News
Wall Street-backed hedge funds, corporate landlords and cash-rich investors have been buying up single-family homes across the country as far back as 2009, which experts say means fewer houses on the market for families to purchase. That also could lead to higher...
December 22, 2023 | News, Urban Planning Studios
View StoryMap During the Somerset County, NJ Circulation Plan Update process, the County recognized the need to reevaluate how it provides public transit services. A meeting of the County’s Senior Management Team held in the Spring of 2023 to discuss this issue...
December 22, 2023 | Alumni Spotlight, Graduate Public Informatics Student Spotlights
Nonprofit Maven and Rising Public Informatics Star Meet Dayana T., a dedicated professional at Rutgers University making waves in the nonprofit sector and a Master of Public Informatics graduate student at the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers....
December 22, 2023 | News, Research, Publications, and Reports
Racial discrimination and mental health in the context of anti-Asian xenophobia: An intersecting approach of race, ethnicity, nativity, and socioeconomic status Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic, polarized politics, and heightened stigma and discrimination are salient...
December 22, 2023 | In the News
Tammy Murphy, the wife of New Jersey’s Democratic governor, announced she was running to unseat the state’s embattled senior senator, Robert Menendez, early on a Wednesday. Within hours, she had notched endorsements from Democratic leaders in two counties, followed by...
December 19, 2023 | Alumni Spotlight, Graduate Public Informatics Student Spotlights
First-Gen. Grad and Energy Analytics TrailblazerElana Simon, Senior Research Fellow – Center for Law, Inequality, and Metropolitan Equity, is a 2022 MCRP-MPI graduate of the Rutgers University Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy. Through a...
December 19, 2023 | In the News
Over the past decade, at least a dozen municipalities have provided potentially questionable coverage to their elected officials through SHBP, documents obtained through public records requests showed. That encompassed 32 current and former officials whose benefits...
December 18, 2023 | In the News
Faculty Fellow Linda Stamato explores the pervasive impact of parking space mandates on urban planning, criticizing the prioritization of parking over people in cities and towns. She highlights the environmental, economic, and social consequences of excessive parking,...
December 15, 2023 | In the News
Wells Fargo and subsidiaries of Sun Life Financial and investment firm P10 have agreed to pay a combined $5.5 million to settle a claim that they inflated the cost of community development projects in Oregon to boost their benefit from a state tax credit program. The...
December 13, 2023 | In the News
A group of 29 New Jersey good-government organizations called on all declared candidates for the state’s U.S. Senate seat in 2024 to push for what they consider a fairer ballot, one that does not list candidates along the party line. Fair Ballot Alliance New Jersey...
December 12, 2023 | In the News
New Jersey First Lady Tammy Murphy’s entrance into the primary race for a U.S. Senate seat is mobilizing progressive activists to make the ballot a campaign issue in the 2024 race. A new statewide alliance of progressive organizations is asking all candidates in the...
December 6, 2023 | In the News
The last time the Lakewood Township Committee met in person Donald Trump was president, recreational marijuana was illegal in New Jersey, and there were only 11 confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the state. That was March 5, 2020. Since then, the governing body has only...
December 6, 2023 | In the News
When Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) was indicted for a years-long bribery scheme, Rep. Andy Kim (D-NJ) seized on the opportunity to launch a Senate bid the very next day. Pitching himself as a straitlaced alternative to the corruption-magnet that is Menendez, the three-term...
December 5, 2023 | In the News
There is ample evidence that winning the party line, the preferential ballot placement that comes to candidates who win county party endorsements, gives a candidate for state or federal office an advantage. In a recent study, Rutgers University professor Julia Sass...
December 5, 2023 | In the News
The U.S. Senate campaign of Tammy Murphy, the wife of Gov. Phil Murphy, is calling attention to an arcane voting system in New Jersey, which could give her an upper hand in the Democratic primary. Murphy, 58, has never run for elected office but in the days following...
