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.
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News
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.
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 environmentclick 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.
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.
