Working for Smart Growth:
More Livable Places and Open Spaces
President-elect Barack Obama has called for “the largest investment in infrastructure since the creation of the interstate highway system” to be a part of the forthcoming economic stimulus package. The price tag for this stimulus could approach $1 trillion.
Much of the infrastructure money is expected to be funneled to state departments of transportation to be […]
The Smart Housing Incentives Act encourages the development of environmentally sound, economically diverse and easily accessible neighborhoods.
NJ Transit has opened two new light rail systems, the RiverLine and the Hudson Bergen Light Rail Line, and expanded a third, the Newark City Subway.
The market for first-time homebuyers, as well as renters, is being underserved throughout much of New Jersey.
New Jersey Future’s annual Smart Growth Awards highlights captures the energy that is transforming places around the state.
New Jersey’s older cities have experienced a significant revival since 2000, outperforming the rest of the state in critical measures of economic growth.
Gloucester County still leads New Jersey’s 21 counties in population growth, growing by 1.58 percent between 2006 and 2007, nearly seven times the statewide growth rate of 0.23 percent. Somerset (1.09 percent) and Cumberland (0.89 percent) were the second and third fastest-growing counties in the past year, respectively.
Several counties in […]
On a per capita basis, in 2005 New Jersey residents emitted an estimated 16.7 metric tons of carbon dioxide from three principal sources: transportation (34 percent); residential, commercial and industrial fuel use (32 percent); and electricity consumption (24 percent).
A key component in reducing greenhouse gas emissions involves driving less. According […]
New Jersey is the most developed state in the nation—and not by a little bit. According to the Natural Resources Conservation Service, the Garden State leads its nearest competitor in this category, Rhode Island, by about 25 percent.
Through the 1990s and into the early 2000s, New Jersey successfully preserved about […]
New Jersey has one of the highest debt burdens of any state in the country.
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