G. Thomas Kingsley

Senior Fellow

Tom Kingsley is a Senior Fellow at the Urban Institute, whose research specializes in housing, urban policy, and governance issues. He served for over a decade as Director of the Institute's Center for Public Finance and Housing and currently directs the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership--an initiative to further the development of advanced data systems for policy analysis and community building in U.S. cities. Other projects he has led over the past few years have focused on: analyzing neighborhood patterns and impacts of the foreclosure crisis; assessing lessons from HUD’s HOPE VI program for urban policy and the future of public housing; providing analytic support to the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Making Connections Initiative; and analyzing the patterns and effects of concentrated poverty in America's urban areas. In the 1990s, Mr. Kingsley was co-director for the Ford Foundation sponsored Urban Opportunity Program, which produced four books on the status of urban policy issues in America, and director of a program helping the Czech and Slovak Republics design and implement policy reforms in housing and municipal infrastructure (for USAID).

Before joining the Urban Institute, Mr. Kingsley directed a project to prepare a national urban development strategy for Indonesia (for the United Nations). Earlier he served as director of the Rand Corporation's Housing and Urban Policy Program where he led projects testing the market effects of housing voucher programs (the HUD sponsored Housing Assistance Supply Experiment) and analyzing the structure and potentials of metropolitan Cleveland's economy (for the Cleveland Foundation). Mr. Kingsley previously served as Assistant Administrator for the New York City Housing and Development Administration. He has also taught on the faculties of the graduate urban planning programs at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Southern California.

TKingsley@urban.org

Publications by topic:
Cities and Metropolitan Regions
Job Opportunities
Federal Urban Policies
Mobility and Transportation
Neighborhoods/Community Building
Housing
Federal Programs and Policies
Housing Markets and Choice
Section 8 Vouchers and Mobility

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