10 Jenny Schuetz PhD, Housing policy / Washington DC
A conversation with urban economist Jenny Schuetz PhD, about housing policy, housing affordability, and Fixer-Upper, How to Repair America’s Broken Housing Systems, her latest book.
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10 Jenny Schuetz PhD, Housing policy / Washington DC
Biography:
Jenny Schuetz is a fellow at the Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings. She is an expert in urban economics and housing policy, focusing particularly on housing affordability. Dr. Schuetz has written extensively on land use regulation, housing prices, urban amenities, and neighborhood change. She has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Financial Times, The Economist, Vox, and Slate.
Before joining Brookings, Dr. Schuetz served as a principal economist in the Division of Consumer and Community Affairs at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Dr. Schuetz was also an assistant professor at the University of Southern California and a post-doctoral fellow at New York University’s Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy. Dr. Schuetz is a non-resident senior fellow at GWU’s Center for Washington Area Studies and teaches in Georgetown’s urban planning program.
Dr. Schuetz earned a PhD in Public Policy from Harvard University, a Master’s in City Planning from M.I.T., and a B.A. with Highest Distinction in Economics and Political and Social Thought from the University of Virginia. Dr. Schuetz is the author of Fixer Upper: How to Repair America's Broken Housing Systems.
Education:
PhD in Public Policy from Harvard University.
Master in City Planning from M.I.T.
B.A. in Economics and Political and Social Thought from the University of Virginia.
Workplace: Brookings Metro
Current city: Washington DC.
Websites of interest:
https://www.brookings.edu/program/brookings-metro/
https://www.brookings.edu/experts/jenny-schuetz/
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/BrookingsInst
Instagram: http://www.Instagram.com/brookingsinst
Book:
Fixer-Upper. How to Repair America’s Broken Housing Systems
210 Pages
Brookings Institution Press, February 22, 2022
Paperback ISBN: 9780815739289 Ebook ISBN: 9780815739296
Buy Fixer-Upper book here: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780815739289
https://www.brookings.edu/book/fixer-upper/
Publications:
Topics of recent research include: how statewide zoning reform could improve housing affordability; local strategies to help renters during the COVID-19 crisis; rethinking homeownership incentives to narrow the racial wealth gap; and how housing costs exacerbate economic and racial segregation.
source https://www.brookings.edu/
https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/jenny-schuetz
https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/affordable-housing-doesnt-have-to-look-cheap-inside-or-out
Twitter: @jenny_schuetz
Audio / Video:
Fixer Upper: How to Repair America’s Broken Housing Systems Book Launch. 2022
https://youtu.be/JNnwd1VEgJw
Key words:
Urban economics, Housing policy, Housing policies, equitable and healthy communities, Fixer-Upper. How to Repair America’s Broken Housing Systems, Washington DC.
Episode production:
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