Do municipalities with the highest concentrations of commercial properties also tend to have the lowest tax rates?
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Municipal “Ratables Chase” Doesn’t Necessarily Pay
Wednesday, August 4th, 2010Sprawl Not Yet a Thing of the Past
Thursday, July 29th, 2010New Jersey has long been the nation’s most developed state, but new data show it is now more developed than anything else.
Walkable, Transit-Rich Neighborhoods Poised for Comeback
Friday, July 23rd, 2010image source: The Atlantic In the June 2010 issue of the Atlantic, contributor Christopher Lineberger argues in “Here Comes the Neighborhood” that the recent plunge in housing prices hasn’t affected walkable neighborhoods in urban and inner-suburban areas to the same […]
Urban Centers Weathering Economic Storm Better Than Other Places?
Thursday, July 8th, 2010photo source: Resurgence City A few months ago, New Jersey Future looked at residential building permit data and found that New Jersey’s urban centers were faring better, relative to the rest of the state, in permit activity over the 2003-2008 […]
If New Jersey Were a Country …
Thursday, June 17th, 2010Only four countries in the world are more urbanized than New Jersey, where the population density is 10 times that of the United States as a whole.
By the Numbers: County Population Estimates Defy Earlier Trends
Wednesday, April 28th, 2010Is the sudden, recent population growth in older, more urbanized counties in the Northeast a short-term phenomenon? Or has the exodus from New York City and northern New Jersey to the Pocono counties of northeastern Pennsylvania run its course? The […]
Non-English-Speakers More Common in NJ than Nationally
Tuesday, April 27th, 2010The Census Bureau has just released new data on people age 5 and older who speak a language other than English at home. The press release mentions New Jersey twice, as being among the states with the highest percentages of […]
Metro Areas Are the Key to America’s – and New Jersey’s – Future Economic Prosperity
Thursday, April 22nd, 2010In an article in the Wall Street Journal (“The Metro Moment”) last week, the Brookings Institution’s Bruce Katz drew attention to the importance of metropolitan areas to the nation’s economic activity: The real heart of the American economy lies in […]
Urban Centers on Rebound
Friday, April 9th, 2010This marked shift toward redevelopment sheds further light on the phenomenon of stabilizing—or even increasing—city populations
Market Forces Portend Shift From Sprawl to Redevelopment
Thursday, February 18th, 2010The percent of New Jersey households containing children under age 18 has been falling steadily, to the point that two-thirds of New Jersey households are now child-free.