January 31, 2024 | News
Policy makers are grappling with the advent of a variety of new transportation technologies known as micromobility. These include e-scooters, e-bikes, as well as conventional bicycles. While these modes of travel offer many opportunities for more sustainable mobility...
January 30, 2024 | In the News
Class was canceled Monday across the Freehold Township school district, but not for the familiar January troubles of slushy roads, frozen pipes or a busted boiler. No, this was “a cybersecurity event” that ground school business to a halt. District officials disclosed...
January 29, 2024 | In the News
On January 4, Gov. Phil Murphy (D-N.J.) signed the New Voter Empowerment Act into law, permitting 17-year-olds to vote in state primary elections, provided that they will turn 18 before the November general elections, according to a press release. Nineteen states have...
January 29, 2024 | News, Urban Planning Studios
View StoryMap The New Jersey Meadowlands District is an ecologically sensitive and economically valuable location in North Jersey, located opposite the Hudson River from New York City. With increasing demands for affordable housing in the area, as well as...
January 29, 2024 | In the News
For decades, politicians, policy makers, and industry leaders have told a disturbing narrative: An inferior educational system, this account goes, prevents many young Americans from entering STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) fields, weakening...
January 29, 2024 | In the News
The state’s industrial and office sectors both faced headwinds in 2023, but the year ahead for each asset class may be decidedly different. That was a key takeaway last week from panelists at NAIOP New Jersey’s Annual Meeting and Commercial Real Estate Outlook, who...
January 29, 2024 | In the News
Fueling this year’s general election is a fear that the democracy “entrusted to the hands of the American people,” as George Washington declared in his first inaugural address, is on the verge of collapse. Democrats are terrified that former President Donald...
January 29, 2024 | In the News
Mercer County’s elected commissioners earned a salary of just $32,853 last year. They largely hold jobs outside their political posts, with careers in government, non-profits or the corporate world that pay the bills. To the public, the county describes its seven...
January 28, 2024 | In the News
It took Tammy Murphy just weeks to win the backing of key New Jersey Democratic leaders in her bid for Senate. In a state where party bosses still carry strong influence in elections, that could ordinarily be enough to ensure her nomination — giving the New Jersey...
January 27, 2024 | In the News
Outside Phil Rosso’s porch sits the empty lot where his daughter’s house stood before the remnants of Hurricane Ida blew through Lambertville in 2021 and sent the house careening into the nearby creek. That home and another next to it were ultimately bought by New...
January 25, 2024 | News
For fifty years, New Jersey’s Coastal Area Facility Review Act (CAFRA) has been protecting coastal resources and guiding development patterns along the shoreline. To commemorate that anniversary, this project sought to understand the law’s history to inform...
January 24, 2024 | News, Research, Publications, and Reports
Abstract Since the capitalist and colonial enclosure of land-qua-property, the property parcel has served as the geographic foundation of land ownership. Bounded, self-contained, and mutually exclusive with all surrounding parcels, this geography is taken for granted...
January 22, 2024 | In the News
Sagging revenue and a bevy of looming funding needs in the coming fiscal year threaten to pull New Jersey’s $8.1 billion surplus below a threshold that would pause the nascent StayNJ property tax relief program before it sends out a single payment. Revenue from New...
January 19, 2024 | In the News
New Jersey’s economy added 12,200 jobs in December, but its unemployment rate ticked up to 4.8% from 4.7%, the state Department of Labor and Workforce Development said Thursday in a report showing the labor market in 2023 slowed down from its frenzied pace. The...
January 18, 2024 | In the News
Rutgers University Economist James Hughes joined Drive Time with Michael Wallace to talk about the lack of middle-class housing in New Jersey. WCBSAM News Radio 880, January 18, 2024
January 17, 2024 | News
The Great American Outdoors Act (GAOA) of 2020 promised the investment in national parks that the United States desperately needed. Since 1980, the number of visitors to national parks has increased by 50%, yet land management agencies previously did not receive...
January 17, 2024 | In the News
Richard Naughton moved from his home country of England to New Jersey recently to work as a chef for the renowned restaurateur David Burke in a job that he says has lived up to the hype. He can’t imagine doing anything else. But he’s run into an obstacle....
January 17, 2024 | In the News
A fresh look at a nearly decade-old effort to reduce hospitalizations for Camden residents with significant medical and social needs shows that while the intervention didn’t drive down admissions, it likely improved patients’ health and welfare. “It’s a qualified...
January 16, 2024 | News, Research, Publications, and Reports
Voices from frontline nurses on care quality and patient safety during COVID-19: An application of the Donabedian model Highlights The majority of RNs reported that staffing ratios impacted adherence to safety protocols during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic....
January 16, 2024 | In the News
NAIOP New Jersey will welcome hundreds of industry leaders next week for its first event of the year, where experts will highlight economic trends and their impact on commercial real estate. Slated for Jan. 25 at the Hilton Short Hills, the chapter’s Annual Meeting...
