CLiME NEWSLETTER
November 2021
Beyond Covid and Before the Backlash
Important questions about structural inequality continue to direct CLiME’s research projects during the 2021-22 school year, such as:
 
  • What lies within the affordability gaps of inner-ring suburbs? 
  • What have localities learned from the Covid housing crisis?
  • Can land use policies be redesigned for racial and economic equity?
  • What is owed to the racially displaced?
New Publication
Dr. Katie Nelson’s analysis of the affordability gap and renter dynamics in Orange, East Orange and Irvington. Read here.
Active Anchor Mission Public Scholarship Projects
Housing Affordability, Land Use and Displacement Risks in the Age of Covid and Climate Change 
 
  • Joint Project on How Local Governments Adapt to Housing Crises During Covid, a NJ State Policy Lab grant-funded collaboration with Rutgers SPAA 

  • The Geography of Injustice, a long-term collaboration with NJFuture over research on the land use forces that sustain segregation, race-based inequities and disparate climate risks first institutionalized by redlining 

  • Three Cities: An Analysis of Housing Affordability in Newark’s Inner-Ring Suburbs of Orange, Irvington and East Orange 

  • Ten Cities and Fair Housing: A collaboration with Fair Share Housing Center 

  • Continued service with the Newark Equitable Growth Advisory Commission and collaboration with the Newark Community Development Network 
 
Equitable Public Finance 
 
  • A forthcoming report on racial wealth inequality and the failures of state business tax incentives to serve undernourished markets in New Jersey 
 
Equitable Public Health 
 
  • Continued research on “Colored by Covid,” an interdisciplinary research project that examines the causal pathway by which Covid disproportionately took Black lives.
Extension of Senior Research Fellow, Dr. Katie Nelson
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Nelson will continue in her invaluable role as SRF for another year!
New CLiME Research Fellows
We are excited to present the two talented Rutgers University Newark students who were selected as CLiME Research Fellows this year and one amazing Bloustein School student.  They are:
Ryan Houser
School of Law
Newark
Caleb Sackler
School of Law
Newark
Kyle Cruz
Bloustein School
New Brunswick
Read their bios on our new site.
New CliME Coordinator
CLiME welcomes Katie Sferra, who joins Habibah Johnson in helping to coordinate our work.
Visit the CLiME website - www.clime.rutgers.edu - for all of our news, research updates and publications.