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HMN 2025: What are the promising strategies for providing health care to homeless people

December 30, 2025

“Health care providers are used to dealing with people who are deeply focused on their health, and that’s not always the case with the unhoused,” Cantor said. “If I don’t have a place to sleep or enough to eat, how can I possibly think about seeing a doctor?”

Still, Cantor said effective collaboration could help organizations stretch limited resources and meet patients where they are.

As he put it, such partnerships are not only necessary, but increasingly essential as “money is going to get tighter everywhere.”

Corporations are buying more homes in NJ, what that means to families

December 27, 2025

The largest corporate owners are at saturation,” says Eric Seymour, a Rutgers associate professor who studies private equity in the housing market. “Some of the largest actors, like Invitation Homes and Blackstone, grew to scale in the aftermath of the foreclosure crisis when they are able to buy large numbers of homes at low costs. That window has closed.”

Montclair PILOT ‘Sharing’ Measure Won’t Fly – But Town Considering Other Options

December 22, 2025

The inequitable sharing, Pfeiffer said, has a long history that favors municipal governments. This is because when initially established by the legislature, PILOTs were only available to Urban Aid municipalities, which would typically correspond with the list of then Abbott districts, where the state covered greater portions of school costs.

The Peak of Trump’s Fact-Free Vendetta Against Regulation

December 22, 2025

As economists got better at measuring the benefits of regulation,” Stuart Shapiro, a onetime OIRA analyst and now professor of public policy at Rutgers, observes in The Regulatory Review, “benefit-cost analysis began to be seen as a tool that supported more stringent regulation of the economy.”

Stagnating national jobs market raises economic concerns

December 19, 2025

Irving said he’ll be tracking jobs numbers closely in coming months. New Jersey’s unemployment rate is 5.2% — that’s higher than the national rate — and Irving noted the state has in recent years been a bellwether for what is coming to the rest of America.

NJ Job Losses Reach 16K For 2025; What Does 2026 Hold?

December 17, 2025

“We may start seeing signs of a recession, but that doesn’t mean we’re in a recession,” he told NJ101.5. “The economy is constantly flowing, changing. I don’t see us at the moment being in recession. But there clearly is potential for that.”

Cantor, Yedidia Identify Strategies to Provide Health Care to Homeless

December 17, 2025

A study by Joel Cantor and Michael Yedidia published in The Milbank Quarterly found that partnerships between housing and health care organizations significantly improve services for people experiencing homelessness by making better use of limited resources. Through interviews with administrators and frontline providers in eight New Jersey programs, researchers identified strategies such as co-locating services, maintaining strong inter-organizational communication, and tailoring care to client needs.

Why your mom’s weekly trip to Boscov’s may be saving N.J.’s struggling malls

December 13, 2025

For young people at the time, malls weren’t just retail spaces but social hubs. Baby boomers treated mall trips as scheduled weekend activities, using malls to discover new styles, browse new merchandise and hang out with friends, according to James W. Hughes, a Rutgers University economist and professor.

Could layoffs in NJ preview a recession for 2026?

December 11, 2025

“Things have been tepid for quite a while,” he said, “but this notion that we may be coming toward a recession? We’re looking at sort of middle of next year — at least a recession as you might want to define it at the state level, where we start to see significant job declines.” said Will Irving.

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