Profile
Alex F. Schwartz is Professor in the Public and Urban Policy program at the 麻豆传媒色情片 for Social Research. He twice served as program chair. He holds a doctorate in Urban Planning and Policy Development from Rutgers University.
Professor Schwartz鈥檚 research centers on housing and community development, including public housing and other affordable housing programs, mixed-income housing, and fair housing. While most of his research has focused on housing issues in the United States, he has also studied housing policy in the United Kingdom, and has consulted for the (AHURI).
Professor Schwartz is the author of听. He is co-author with Milano colleague Rachel Meltzer of 听(Routledge听 second edition 2024). His research has appeared in such journals as Cityscape, Economic Development Quarterly, Housing Policy Debate, Housing Studies, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, the Journal of Urban Affairs, and the Journal of the American Planning Association. In addition, he served as the Managing Editor for North America for the international journal听听from 2010 to 2020.
Professor Schwartz is Director of the听Urban Policy Lab, in which teams of graduate students advise government agencies and nonprofit organizations on a wide array of policy and management issues. He also teaches Policy Analysis, Community Development, and Housing Policy.
In the spring of 2019 New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio appointed Professor Schwartz to the city's , which determines maximum rent increases for nearly 1 million units of rent stabilized housing.
Degrees Held
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Professional Affiliation
Association for Collegiate Schools of Planning, Urban Affairs Assoiciation
Recent Publications
鈥淲hat if Universal Rental Assistance were Implemented to Deal with the Housing Crisis?鈥 The Conversation (June 26, 2025) (With Kirk McClure).
"Where is the Housing Shortage?" (with Kirk McClure). forthcoming, Housing Policy Debate听听丑迟迟辫蝉://飞飞飞.迟补苍诲蹿辞苍濒颈苍别.肠辞尘/诲辞颈/蹿耻濒濒/10.1080/10511482.2024.2334011
鈥淗omes Are Expensive. Building More Won鈥檛 Solve the Problem.鈥 Barron鈥檚 June 30, 2023 (With Kirk McClure). https://www.barrons.com/articles/housing-crisis-build-more-homes-1342c24f
鈥淭he Geography of Absence: Cities, Towns, and Suburbs with No LIHTC Housing鈥 (with Kirk McClure) Housing Policy Debate 33, 4 (2023: 963-982).
听 (New York: Routledge, 2021).
鈥淭he Rental Housing Demonstration Program and its Current and Projected Consumption of Low-Income Housing Tax Credits鈥 (with Kirk McClure). Cityscape 23, 2 (2021): 9-25.听 https://www.huduser.gov/portal/periodicals/cityscpe/vol23num2/ch1.pdf
鈥淣eighbourhood Opportunity, Racial Segregation, and the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program in the United States鈥 (with Kirk McClure). Housing Studies, DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1950646
鈥淭he case for universal rental assistance (with Kirk McClure). The Appeal (May 15, 2020).
鈥淩enters still left out in the cold despite temporary coronavirus protection鈥 (with Kirk McClure). The Conversation (April 23, 2020).
鈥淢ixed-Income Housing in New York City: Achievements, Lessons and Challenges of an Enduring Mayoral Commitment鈥 (with Sasha Tsenkova). Forthcoming, 2020, 听in Mark Joseph and Amy Khare, eds., What Works to Promote Inclusive, Equitable Mixed-Income Communities (San Francisco: Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco).听
鈥淭he Uses and Limits of Architectural Design for Affordable Rental Housing: Case Studies of the Complexities of New York City, USA.鈥 (with John Goering)听 Les Cahiers de la Recherche Architectural Urbaine et Paysag猫re vol 8, 2020. https://journals.openedition.org/craup/4507
鈥淣ew York City鈥檚 Affordable Housing Plans and the Limits of Local Initiative.鈥 Cityscape 21, 3 (2019): 355-388. 鈥
鈥淪mall Area Fair Market Rents, Race, and Neighborhood Opportunity鈥澨 (with Kirk McClure) Cityscape 21, 3 (2019): 49-69.
鈥淗ousing for People with Disabilities: A Review of State Olmstead and HUD Consolidated Plans鈥 (with Lynn McCormick and Chiara Passerini). Journal of Planning Education and Research forthcoming, 2019.
Policy Analysis as Problem Solving: A Flexible and Evidence-Based Framework听(Routledge, 2018) (With Rachel Meltzer)听
鈥淣ecessary But Not Sufficient: Small Area Fair Market Rents and Voucher Access to Opportunity Neighborhoods.鈥 Article Commentary, Housing Policy Debate 29,1 (2018): 62-63.
Review of 鈥淣o Simple Solutions: Transforming Public Housing in Chicago鈥 by Susan Popkin. Housing Studies 33,2 (2018): 340-342
"Future Prospects for Public Housing in the United States: Lessons from the Rental Assistance Demonstration Program. Housing Policy Debate 33,2 (2017):789-806
鈥淭he Low-Income Housing Tax Credit, Community Development, and Fair Housing: A Response to Orfield et. al. Housing Policy Debate 26,2 (2016): 276-283
鈥淗ousing Affordability and Health: Evidence from New York City鈥 (with Rachel Meltzer). Housing Policy Debate, 26,1 (2016): 80-114听
鈥淗ousing Choice Voucher Location Patterns a Decade Later鈥 (with Kirk McClure and Lydia B. Taghavi) Housing Policy Debate 25, 2 (2015): 215-233
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Research Interests
housing policy