New public and private sector developments in New Jersey must now include the use of green infrastructure as a stormwater management technique starting March 2, 2021.
Development and Redevelopment
New Stormwater Rules Require New Developments to Include Green Infrastructure
Friday, March 5th, 2021Where Do New Jersey’s Property Tax Bills Hit the Hardest?
Monday, February 15th, 2021Recently-released property tax data from the Department of Community Affairs have reminded us once again that New Jerseyans pay a lot in property taxes. Indeed, New Jersey residents pay the highest property tax bills in the country.
Helping towns design for all ages: New Jersey Future’s aging-friendly program is gaining momentum
Monday, February 15th, 2021A summary of milestones recently achieved by a number of towns New Jersey Future is working with to implement aging-friendly land use goals.
Older Homeowners in Car-Dependent Suburbs Face Difficulty Downsizing
Thursday, February 11th, 2021Older adults in New Jersey looking to sell their homes—most of which are single-family detached houses—as younger generations continue to prefer smaller homes in walkable communities.
New Jersey Future Releases Guide to Implementing Aging-Friendly Land Use Decisions
Friday, January 15th, 2021New Jersey Future, with funding from The Henry and Marilyn Taub Foundation, developed Creating Great Places to Age in New Jersey: A Community Guide to Implementing Aging-Friendly Land Use Decisions to provide local communities with a step-by-step process to design their towns for the needs of older adults.
Visualizing an Aging-Friendly Built Environment for Implementation in Ridgewood Village
Tuesday, November 10th, 2020New Jersey Future partnered with the Village of Ridgewood to develop an aging-friendly land use implementation plan, and now a graduate design studio class at the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University is helping to move it along.
The Geography of Poverty and Race in New Jersey
Wednesday, October 14th, 2020Despite New Jersey’s urban resurgence in the years since the Great Recession, and despite concerns about gentrification expressed in popular media, high-poverty neighborhoods have not gone away.
The Black-White Homeownership Gap in New Jersey
Wednesday, September 16th, 2020Where we build our housing, the type of housing we build, and for whom we build it affects our environment, our quality of life, and how segregated a state we will live in.
A Guide to Diversifying Housing Options for an Aging Population
Tuesday, August 11th, 2020A new report by New Jersey Future, Municipal Strategies to Diversify Housing Stock for an Aging Population: A Case Study Report, is part of New Jersey Future’s Creating Great Places to Age program.
A Shift to Working From Home Raises Many Questions About Potential Effects on Other Aspects of Daily Life
Thursday, August 6th, 2020Read New Jersey Future’s perspective on some of the possible effects—both positive and negative—on the geographic patterns of residence, employment, shopping, and travel behavior if the stay-at-home advisories of the pandemic era translate into a permanent increase in the number of people working from home.
