Speakers

Eric Belsky

Eric Belsky is Executive Director of the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University and Lecturer in Urban Design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. The Center is a collaborative venture of the Graduate School of Design and the John F. Kennedy School of Government. The Center conducts research on the nation’s most critical housing and urban issues.

Prior to his Harvard appointments, Dr. Belsky led the Housing Finance and Credit Analysis Group at Price Waterhouse LLP. He has also held the positions of 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. He received his Ph.D. in geography, his master’s degree in international development, and his BA from Clark University.

Dr. Belsky currently serves on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Housing Research and Housing Policy Debate, the Board of Directors of Champion Enterprises, Inc., the Research Advisory Committee of the Center for Responsible Lending, and the Shared Equity Research Working Group of NCB Capital Impact. In 2001 and 2002, Dr. Belsky also served as Research Director for the bipartisan Millennial Housing Commission established by the Congress of the United States.

Dr. Belsky has extensive experience conducting research on housing markets, housing finance, and housing policy. He has published numerous articles in trade publications and academic journals. He has co-edited four books: Low-Income Homeownership: Examining the Unexamined Goal (2002), Building Assets, Building Credit: Creating Wealth in Low-Income Communities (2005), Revisiting Rental Housing: Policies, Programs, and Priorities (2008), and Borrowing to Live: Consumer and Mortgage Credit Revisited (2008).