The Housing Policy Debate Blog aims to elevate Housing Policy Debate articles with especially timely implications for practitioners and policymakers.

Vincent Reina, Editor in Chief, ​Housing Policy Debate

Dr. Reina is an Associate Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania and Faculty Director of the Housing Initiative at Penn. His research, which has been published in various academic journals including Urban Studies and the Journal of Housing Economics, focuses on urban economics, low-income housing policy, household mobility,  neighborhood change, and community and economic development. In 2022, Dr. Reina joined the White House Domestic Policy Council as Senior Advisor for Housing and Urban Policy.

George Galster, Acting Editor in Chief, ​Housing Policy Debate

Dr. Galster is Clarence Hilberry Professor of Urban Affairs and Distinguished Professor, Emeritus, at Wayne State University. He has published over 160 peer-reviewed articles and 35 book chapters on topics ranging from metropolitan housing markets, racial discrimination and segregation, neighborhood dynamics, residential reinvestment, community lending and insurance patterns, neighborhood effects, and urban poverty. His most recent book, Making Our Neighborhoods, Making Ourselves, was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2019.

Claudia Aiken, Managing Editor, ​Housing Policy Debate

Claudia Aiken is Director of the Housing Initiative at Penn. Her research focuses on housing policy in the context of declining federal resources; racial and socioeconomic inequity; and neighborhood change. She has published in the Urban Affairs Review, Russell Sage Foundation RSF: Journal of the Social Sciences, and Cityscape.

Julia Sands, Housing Initiative at Penn

Julia Sands is a freelance writer and intern at the Housing Initiative at UPenn, where she has worked since 2021. She graduated from Bard College in 2022 as a written arts major.