Vincent Reina
Professor
University of Pennsylvania
Vincent Reina is a professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania, with a secondary appointment as Professor of Real Estate in the Wharton School of Business. Reina is the Founder and Faculty Director of the Housing Initiative at Penn and is currently a Stoneleigh Foundation Fellow and Editor in Chief of the peer-reviewed journal Housing Policy Debate. His research focuses on urban economics, housing policy, and community and economic development, and has been published in various peer-reviewed journals.
In 2022-2024 Reina served as the Senior Advisor for Housing and Urban Policy in the White House Domestic Policy Council, where he worked to address the nation’s housing affordability and supply challenges, affirmatively further fair housing, increase access to homeownership, and advance community investment. Reina was also previously a Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, a Lincoln Institute for Land Policy Scholar, and a Coro fellow.