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.   >> Learn more


Check out New Jersey Future's blog -- Garden State Smart Growth -- for the latest in smart growth news from across New Jersey.

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.

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HUD Sustainable Communities Regional Planning Grant 
The Edward J. Bloustein School at Rutgers has submitted a grant application to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development on behalf of the North Jersey Sustainable Communities Consortium to fund a plan for coordinated and sustainable transit-oriented development associated with the creation of the Trans-Hudson ARC tunnel. Click here to read the project abstract.

Municipal Ratables Chase Doesn't Necessarily Pay
Read New Jersey Future's special report that calls into question the municipal pursuit of non-residential development in an effort to lower property taxes. Read the article in the Daily Record from August 1, 2010. Read NJF's Future Facts on the ratables chase.

Press Releases
July 28 --
Rowan-Rutgers Report Shows Suburbanization of New Jersey Picks Up Pace Since 2002. Click here for the latest Future Facts on the report.

Making TDR Work
For a wealth of resources on TDR in New Jersey and around the country, click here. Read the final report of the New Jersey TDR Statewide Policy Task Force, which recommends a variety of actions to facilitate the use of Transfer of Development Rights and other density transfer tools.

Smart Housing Zones
To learn how New Jersey
can create homes that are affordable to our workforce and friendly to the environment
click here.  


Recent Publications

Sustainable Communities: The Light at the End of the Tunnel. To leave a comment on our blog, click here.

Where Are We Growing? Planning for New Jersey for the Next 20 Years.  A summary of the October 16, 2009 conference presented by the Policy Research Institute for the Region at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University.

2010 Gubernatorial Transition Brief on Affordable Housing. Re-asserts the link between land use and affordable housing, and stresses the need for a simple, predictable and fair system.

NJF Newsletter
View the Spring edition of the New Jersey Future newsletter, which includes the winners of the Smart Growth Awards, the Flash Video of the Redevelopment Forum, plus more.

Planning Ahead in New Jersey
The latest addition to New Jersey Future's Smart Growth Recommendations Series, November 2009.

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In The News

Down to Its Last Million Acres
New York Times, August 29, 2010


Preservation in Peril
Wall Street Journal, August 5, 2010


Is an Extended Tax Base Worth It?
The Daily Record, August 1, 2010


Report: State Must Look in Right Direction to Curb Sprawl
NJBIZ, July 28, 2010


Rowan-Rutgers Study Says NJ is Running out of Open Space
Star Ledger, July 28, 2010


Mapping Sources to refuel State's Ailing Transit Fund
NJBIZ, July 26, 2010


To Measure the Glory of Sidewalks
Bergen Record, July 16, 2010


New Tunnel Could Transform NJ's Landscape
Courier News, July 6, 2010