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New Jersey State Policy Lab: Blue Acres, Buyouts, and Managed Retreat
Managed retreat is the process of deliberately moving away from places that are no longer safe to remain due to various environmental factors, most often flooding.
National Transit Institute names Geisha Ester as advisory board chair
The National Transit Institute’s mission is to provide training, education, and clearinghouse services in support of public transportation and quality of life in the United States.
New Jersey State Policy Lab: Housing Affordability in New Jersey, 2010-2020
As of 2019, New Jersey ranked third in the country for median monthly housing costs, after California and Hawaii. Nearly half of renter households in New Jersey spent 35 percent or more of their incomes on housing expenses.
Paul Wiedefeld MCRP ’81 joins VTC Advisory Board
Mr. Wiedefeld served as the General Manager/CEO of the Washington Metro, one of the nation’s largest transit systems serving more than 300 million passenger trips annually and with an annual $2.2 billion operating budget.
Kelcie Ralph Selected to National Safety Council’s Mobility Safety Advisory Group
In a potentially significant move for road safety outcomes in the US, the country's National Safety Council (NSC) has moved to push the needs of people who are not in vehicles to the fore. The Mobility Safety Advisory Group (MSAG) consists of non-NSC people from the...
New Jersey State Policy Lab: Mapping New Jersey’s overdose hotspots: Insights from state administrative data
Today’s New Jersey State Policy Lab blog focuses on mapping New Jersey’s overdose hotspots. Gavin Rozzi used Uber’s H3 system to locate where police administered Narcan to reverse opioid overdoses.
Community and Belonging Initiatives
The school is home to individuals from many cultures, races, nationalities, genders, identities, and life experiences and with different beliefs and values. The Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy values community and belonging and aims to improve and grow these efforts strategically by managing and assessing performance.
April 3, 2026: Bloustein Research Day
It’s time to catch up on the wonderful research our faculty, staff, and student colleagues have performed over the past year. Bloustein School faculty and staff will present lightning talks followed by a poster session by graduate and undergraduate students. Learn more.
Student Spotlight: Katherine Lang, Public Health ’26
“I always wanted to be in a career where I felt like I was genuinely helping others. After my sophomore year, I realized that I wanted to be involved in the healthcare sphere but I didn’t necessarily want to practice medicine. I switched my major to public health, picked up a minor in business administration, and learned about the seemingly hundreds of career paths outside of medicine that I had never considered before. Eventually I hope to combine my background in public health with a law degree and work in healthcare administration.”