The declining school populations in part reflect a wider trend of depopulation of the outer-ring suburbs that is playing out across New Jersey and the Northeastern United States, according to Professor James Hughes, a senior faculty fellow at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers. The suburbs, where millennials were born and grew up, provided economic opportunities for their parents but have little to offer today’s 20- and 30-year olds. There are fewer children today than six years ago in almost all of the districts in Hunterdon, Sussex and Warren counties, and those that grow up there don’t want to stay there.
Building New Brunswick: Dan Dominguez on Housing, Growth and the City’s Future
In early October Bloustein alumnus Dan Dominguez, PP, AICP, MCRP ’14, the City of New Brunswick Director of Policy and Development, delivered the school's annual Stuart Meck Memorial Lecture in Land Use Law and Affordable Housing. Dan discussed the evolution of urban...