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NJSPL: Identifying & Examining NJ Corporate Home Ownership

NJSPL: Identifying & Examining NJ Corporate Home Ownership

The phrase “corporate landlord” is often used to refer to large corporate entities backed by private equity funds and Real Estate Investment Trusts. In researching corporate home ownership throughout seven municipalities in New Jersey, researchers found that some areas exhibited high and increasing levels of corporate ownership, broadly defined, but most corporate entities owned just a few properties and most of these appeared to be locally based.

Heldrich Policy Brief: Approaches to Workplace DEI Policies

Heldrich Policy Brief: Approaches to Workplace DEI Policies

A new policy brief by Jessica Starace, Survey Research Manager at the Heldrich Center, summarizes two approaches in which the project findings may be used by policymakers, researchers, employers, and workers for their own research needs:

Prof. Joel Cantor Reflects on Dr. Oz’s Nomination

Prof. Joel Cantor Reflects on Dr. Oz’s Nomination

But big government systems take a long time to change, Cantor and others agreed, given the level of detail involved in implanting complex social service programs. “Inertia is on our side” when it comes to protecting changes New Jersey has made in Medicaid, Cantor said.

Bhuyan Co-Authors New ABCD UrbanSat Study

Bhuyan Co-Authors New ABCD UrbanSat Study

This comprehensive dataset provides an important tool for advancing neurobehavioral research on urbanicity during the critical developmental periods of childhood and adolescence.

Shapiro quoted: EPA in Elon Musk’s crosshairs

Shapiro quoted: EPA in Elon Musk’s crosshairs

Bloustein Dean Stuart Shapiro is quoted in a POLITICO article discussing the ramifications of Trump’s announcement that billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk and 2024 Republican presidential nominee Vivek Ramaswamy will lead a new government efficiency commission aimed at overhauling the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and other federal offices.

New Williams et al. Research on Improving Survey Inference

New Williams et al. Research on Improving Survey Inference

Dr. Sharifa Z. Williams, Assistant Professor, and colleagues found nonresponse in probability surveys creates challenges, but their new 2-step method leverages continuous auxiliary data for better estimates—while protecting confidentiality.

Prof. Toney and Lina Moe Named St. Louis Fed Fellows

Prof. Toney and Lina Moe Named St. Louis Fed Fellows

Toney said, “I will be using the IEE fellowship to advance my current work that examines the effects of historical redlining and racially restrictive housing covenants on households and neighborhoods.”

The Virtues of Public Service with Bob Gordon

The Virtues of Public Service with Bob Gordon

As a former New Jersey legislator and BPU Commissioner, Stuart Shapiro asks Senior Policy Fellow Bob Gordon about his path to public service. Bob talks about his early days as a policy analyst and how he discovered he wanted to be less behind the scenes and move into the policymaking side.

Listokin, Hughes, Edwards New Book: Rutgers Then and Now

Listokin, Hughes, Edwards New Book: Rutgers Then and Now

The project was developed through conversations with James W. Hughes, then dean of Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, and David Listokin, professor at Bloustein’s Center for Urban Policy Research, and an expert in historic preservation. Chats about their shared interests in history, community development and Rutgers, inspired the trio to channel their knowledge into a book that charts the architectural trajectory of College Avenue Campus from its Old Queens origins in 1808 to the present.

What ballot design would make NJ elections fair?

What ballot design would make NJ elections fair?

“The [elected] position would be at the top; there would be the names of all the candidates beneath that,” said Rubin. “It would be clear visually for people to look at it and understand what the position is, how many people they should vote for.

The bigger N.J. hospitals get, the harder it is for people to escape medical debt

The bigger N.J. hospitals get, the harder it is for people to escape medical debt

“If you’re the dominant health system, it puts you in the driver’s seat when you go to negotiate prices or rates — you have a lot of leverage in that situation,” said Joel Cantor, director of the Rutgers Center for State Health Policy. “If you’re the hospital, that’s good. But if you’re the insured or the person paying the premiums, it isn’t great.”

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