A collaboration between the New Jersey State Policy Lab and the Rutgers Hub for Aging Collaboration addressed this gap by compiling a census of all housing apartments available for older adults with low income. The census is available to the public to view here and includes a searchable database and an interactive map of New Jersey, representing existing and potential assisted living program sites throughout the state.
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New Jersey State Policy Lab
NJSPL: Ensuring Accurate & Equitable Vaccination Info
The study evaluated the accuracy, readability, and understandability of vaccination information from ChatGPT and the CDC in both English and Spanish. This is critical as previous evaluations have mostly focused on English, overlooking the needs of non-English speakers in the U.S. We compared responses to common vaccination-related questions using both quantitative and qualitative methods.
Report Release: R/ECON Forecast Winter 2025
R/ECON’s economic forecast for New Jersey as 2024 drew to a close once again shows a slowing trajectory, with annual gross domestic product (GDP) growth in 2025 projected to slow more sharply than in the prior forecast.
NJSPL: Key Insights on NJ College Completion
In December 2024, the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center released a report on credential attainment among college students nationwide[1]. The six-year completion rate in New Jersey continued its upward trajectory, with the 2018 cohort achieving a completion rate of 61%, representing a 0.9 percentage point gain from the previous cohort.
NJSPL: New Jersey Policy Priorities Survey Results
The survey presented 23 policy issues for participants to consider. Housing emerged as the top concern, with more than half of respondents identifying it as the highest priority for New Jersey
NJSPL Report: Transportation Priorities for Camden County
This report offers recommendations around enhancing reliability, expanding coverage and access, improving the infrastructure and access to information, and promoting environmentally sustainable practices in Camden County’s transportation system.
NJSPL Rethinking School Zone Safety Metrics
School zone safety improvements should incorporate the Safe System Approach, meaning that vehicle speeds must be addressed. Infrastructure improvements, such as sidewalk additions, should be coupled with traffic calming measures in order to improve safety.
NJSPL Report on LMI Community Solar Program in NJ
Report Release: Examining Low- and Moderate-Income Community Solar Program and Energy Justice in New Jersey: An AI-Based Crowdsourcing Study
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.
NJSPL Blog: SNAP Websites’ Chatbot Services
Only 11 out of 56 state sites featured chatbots, with just four offering Spanish support.