Fears and reality: TOD efforts often encounter fear of overdevelopment, including the financial burden of educating more children and, ironically, increased automotive traffic].
In reality, transit-oriented developments tend to have smaller households with fewer children and cars, according to a 2012 presentation by Jon Carnegie, executive director of the Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center at Rutgers’ Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy.
In Camden and Atlantic City, health care systems are treating housing as a public health issue Housing instability is driving ER visits and chronic illness. South Jersey health systems are stepping in with housing support and policy partnerships. Health care systems...
Cultural and Institutional Factors Driving Severe Repetitive Flood Losses: Insights From the Jersey Shore Abstract Decisions about how to respond to coastal flood hazards often involve disagreements over resource allocations. In the United States, large...
Report Release – Supporting Aging in Place in New Jersey: A SWOT Analysis of Assisted Living Programs by Ayse Akincigil, Uri Amir Koren, Jasmine Akman, Dima Bischoff-Hashem, Karen Zurlo Read Report New Jersey has an innovative Assisted Living Program (ALP) designed...
Disability, Job Satisfaction, and Workplace Accommodations: Evidence from the Healthcare Industry Abstract Purpose: This paper examines the extent to which job satisfaction, requests for accommodations, and the likelihood of a request being granted vary by disability...
Overview The State of the Climate: New Jersey report annually summarizes updated scientific information on climate trends and projections that can be used by state and local decision-makers, researchers, hazard planning and climate resilience professionals, and...