Author

Ingrid Gould Ellen

Professor of Urban Policy and Planning, New York University Wagner and Furman Center
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As of latest THP publication:

Ingrid Gould Ellen, the Paulette Goddard professor of urban policy and planning, is a faculty director at the NYU Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy. She teaches courses in microeconomics, urban economics, and urban policy research, and her research centers on housing and urban policy with a focus on neighborhoods and racial segregation.  She is author of Sharing America’s Neighborhoods: The Prospects for Stable Racial Integration (Harvard University Press, 2000) and more recently editor of The Dream Revisited: Contemporary Debates About Housing, Segregation and Opportunity (Columbia University Press, 2019).  She has written numerous peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters related to housing policy, community development, and school and neighborhood segregation. Professor Ellen is currently president of the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association.  She has held visiting positions at the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution. She attended Harvard University, where she received a bachelor’s degree in applied mathematics, an M.P.P., and a Ph.D. in public policy.