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Faculty Fellow Vincent Reina

Associate Professor and Associate Chair, Department of City and Regional Planning, Associate Dean for Research, Stuart Weitzman School of Design Founder and Faculty Director of the Housing Initiative

Emerging Scholar Viviana Wu

Assistant Professor of Public Policy, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Affiliated PhD Student Xiao "Betty" Wang

PhD Candidate, Business Economics and Public Policy, the Wharton Business School

State & Local Finance

Article March 9, 2017 Improving the Evidence Base for Access to Quality Pre-K Early childhood education has captured the nation’s attention and holds a rare spot in the center of the political aisle. This is not surprising given that a quality Pre-K experience can save the public at least three dollars for every dollar spent, particularly for children who live in poverty and experience numerous risks to their educational success. In Philadelphia, the poorest of the ten largest cities in America, Mayor Kenney established the Commission on Universal Pre-K to expand access to quality Pre-K in the city, with the ultimate goal of universal access for all three- and four-year-old children. This introduced one of the most important decisions in Kenney’s early term as Mayor—how to expand quality Pre-K given limited funds and thousands of children in need. As researchers, the critical question for us became how to provide useful information to Kenney’s Commission in a timely manner so they can allocate funds to serve the most vulnerable children first. Anchor Institutions

Cover of Governing the Fragmented Metropolis

Book December 13, 2016 Governing the Fragmented Metropolis Christina D. Rosan observes that policy-makers and scholars have long agreed that we need metropolitan governance, but they have debated the best approach. Christina D. Rosan Anchor Institutions

Research Paper September 29, 2016 Producing Affordable Housing in Rising Markets: What Works? Lance Freeman Jenny Schuetz, Housing

Fellow Aromar Revi

Co-Chair of Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IHHS)

Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development + 2

Fellow Laurie Goodman

Institute Fellow, Housing Finance Policy Center Founder of the Housing Finance Policy Center at the Urban Institute

Scholar Mark Willis

Senior Policy Fellow, Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy, New York University

Urban Development Housing + 1

Fellow Angela Glover Blackwell

Professor of Practice, and Chief Vision Officer Democracy Policy Initiative, The Goldman School, University of California, Berkeley Founder in Residence, PolicyLink

Fellow Chandan Deuskar

Urban Development Consultant, The World Bank

Urban Development

Article August 15, 2016 Pension Liabilities: A Call for Transparency Robert P. Inman and Susan M. Wachter write that while cities have as a group strengthened their economies and fortunes considerably since then, there is one area where weakness is still a major concern: the preparation for paying promised pension liabilities. Susan Wachter Housing

Faculty Fellow Jere Behrman

William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Economics

Climate Change & Resilience

Fellow Michael A. Nutter

David N. Dinkins Professor of Professional Practice in Urban and Public Affairs, Columbia University Senior SP2 Executive Fellow at Penn IUR; Former Mayor, City of Philadelphia

Fellow Mark Zandi

Chief Economist, Moody's Analytics

State & Local Finance

Article May 10, 2016 Owning or Renting in the US: Shifting Dynamics of the Housing Market The current persistent and large decline in the number of owner households is almost unprecedented. Why has this occurred? What is driving the economy of renting? Susan Wachter Housing State & Local Finance

Research Paper May 9, 2016 Educating Commercial Real Estate Brokers on Green Leasing / Energy Efficiency This project was sponsored by the Consortium for Building Energy Innovation (CBEI), a program of the Department of Energy. CBEI was a five-year program tasked with bridging the technology, market dynamics, policy, and human behavior in order to reduce energy used by the commercial buildings sector. Susan Wachter State & Local Finance

Article April 13, 2016 Rehousing Mumbai: Formalizing Slum Land Markets Through Redevelopment Planners and economists usually consider land encumbered by slums to be less efficient, with inadequate physical infrastructure services, and fragmented land ownership. Housing State & Local Finance

Article January 25, 2016 Expert Voices 2016: Urban Policy and the Presidential Election With all eyes focused on the presidential race, now is the time to discuss the great challenges that our nation faces. The candidates have a unique opportunity to address the issues that affect the lives of their fellow Americans, but what are those issues and how should they think about them? What major urban policy issues should the candidates address? We posed this question to our Penn IUR Faculty Fellows and Scholars. In the following eleven essays, they explore the urban policies that deserve the candidates' attention. Raphael Bostic Richard Florida Mark Alan Hughes John Jackson, Jr. Laura Perna Wendell Pritchett Megan Ryerson Saskia Sassen Anchor Institutions

Faculty Fellow Megan Ryerson

UPS Foundation Chair of Transportation, City & Regional Planning, Weitzman School of Design Chair, City and Regional Planning

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