Eric Belsky

Lecturer
Executive Director of the Joint Center for Housing Studies
Joint Center for Housing Studies
Office Address
Non Resident
Mailing Address
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Mailbox Hu
79 JFK Street
Contact
Phone: 617-496-4991
Fax: 617-496-9957
Email: eric_belsky@harvard.edu
Eric Belsky

Profile

Eric Belsky is Lecturer of Urban  Planning and Design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design., and Executive Director of the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University, which conducts research on the nations most critical housing and urban issues. He has led the Housing Finance and Credit Analysis Group at Price Waterhouse LLP, served as Director of Housing Finance Research at Fannie Mae, Senior Economist at the National Association of Home Builders, and Assistant Professor of Urban Geography at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and as Research Director for the bipartisan Millennial Housing Commission. He currently serves on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Housing Research and Housing Policy Debate, the Board of Directors of Champion Enterprises, Inc., and the Research Advisory Committee of the Center for Responsible Lending. His publications include co-editing four books: Low-Income Homeownership: Examining the Unexamined Goal (2002), Building Assets, Builder Credit: Creating Wealth in Low-Income Communities (2005), Revisiting Rental Housing (2008), and Borrowing to Live: Consumer and Mortgage Credit Revisited (forthcoming fall of 2008). He received his Ph.D. in geography, his masters degree in international development, and his BA from Clark University.

 

Courses

Spring

  • HUT-264 Housing Policy in the U.S.: Intersection of Public/Private Sectors in Housing Finance