Ingrid Gould Ellen
- Professor of Urban Policy and Planning, NYU Furman Center
“‘Gentle’ approaches can yield a lot of new homes without noticeable changes to the physical environment.”
Ingrid Gould Ellen is the Paulette Goddard Professor of Urban Policy and Planning at the NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and Faculty Director at the NYU Furman Center. She is currently the President-Elect of the Association for Public Policy and Management and previously served as the president of the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association. Professor Ellen has written numerous peer-reviewed articles related to housing policy, neighborhood change, and segregation. She is also author of Sharing America's Neighborhoods: The Prospects for Stable Racial Integration (Harvard University Press, 2000), co-editor of How to House the Homeless (Russell Sage, 2010), and co-editor of The Dream Revisited: Contemporary Debates About Housing, Segregation and Opportunity (Columbia University Press, 2019). Professor Ellen 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.
