New Jersey Future was founded
to achieve smart growth statewide: growth that protects New Jersey’s
open lands and natural resources, strengthens our communities, makes it
easier to get around, and increases our housing choices. New Jersey Future
fulfills this mission through original research, policy analysis, public
education, and advocacy.
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New Jersey appears prosperous, but our future is threatened unless state leaders follow a different agenda. View our Four Ways guide online or download the PDF.
An online resource to connect you with the information needed to implement
Smart Growth solutions in your town.
News
2008 Smart Growth Awards The ceremony for our seventh Smart Growth Awards, which celebrate smart planning and development in New Jersey, will be held on June 5, 2008, at the Newark Club. To register on-line, click here. Toni Griffin, Director of Community Development for the City of Newark, will offer remarks.
Pete Kasabach, NJF's executive director, said a big part of New Jersey Future's agenda is determining how to preserve space and how to redirect development into areas like Trenton where the infrastructrure exists and "where we want people living." Click here to read the full article in the Trenton Times.
Pete Kasabach has been appointed to serve on the DEP Permit Efficiency Review Task Force. The purpose of the Task Force is to recommend changes to DEP's permitting process to provide more timely and efficient service and enhance its ability to advance sustainable development projects. The Task Force will develop its recommendations over a period of 120 days. Click here to read the press release.
2008 Redevelopment Forum Over 600 people attended our annual conference on Friday, February 29, 2008 at the Hyatt Hotel and Conference Center in New Brunswick. Jonathan F.P. Rose delivered the keynote speech. Commissioners Joseph V. Doria, Jr. and Lisa P. Jackson offered luncheon remarks. Please click here for more information on panels and speakers.
Read NJF's testimony on April 2 at the Senate Budget Committee on how sprawl development impacts the economy through high housing costs, on March 26 at the Plan Implementation Committee on Woolwich Township's petition for plan endorsement andon March 19 at NJ DEP Public Hearing on Use of the Global Warming Solutions Fund.
Report Outlines Agenda for Urban Transformation New Jersey's older cities have experienced a significant revival since 2000, outperforming the rest of the state in critical measures of economic growth.
Click here to view the winter issue of New Jersey Future News.
Tax Reform Scorecard An easy-to-use scorecard for identifying the strengths and weaknesses of the recently released tax reform proposals.
Prosperity at Risk: Brookings Report on New Jersey The Brookings Institution concludes in its report that New Jersey’s competitiveness and prosperity are threatened by policies that are costing the state high-tech and high-wage jobs, driving up the price of housing, lengthening commutes and concentrating poverty.
Pete Kasabach, NJF's executive director, said a big part of New Jersey Future's agenda is determining how to preserve space and how to redirect development into areas like Trenton where the infrastructrure exists and "where we want people living." 
