Authors

Ingrid Gould Ellen

Paulette Goddard Professor of Urban Policy and Planning and Faculty Director of NYU Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy

New York University

INGRID GOULD ELLEN is a Professor at NYU’s Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and a Faculty Director at the NYU Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy. Professor Ellen’s research interests center on housing and urban policy.  She is author of Sharing America’s Neighborhoods: The Prospects for Stable Racial Integration (Harvard University Press, 2000) and more recently editor of The Dream Revisited: Contemporary Debates About Housing, Segregation and Opportunity (Columbia University Press, 2019).  She has written numerous peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters related to housing policy, community development, and school and neighborhood segregation. 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. She attended Harvard University, where she received a bachelor’s degree in applied mathematics, an M.P.P., and a Ph.D. in public policy.

Publications

A Renter Safety Net: A Call for Federal Emergency Rental Assistance

Ingrid Gould Ellen (NYU Furman Center), Amy Ganz (Economic Strategy Group), and Katherine O’Regan (NYU Furman Center) document the costly externalities that such housing instability poses and propose the creation of a Federal Emergency Rental Assistance Program to provide one-time, short-term financial help to low-income renters who face unexpected financial shocks.