Ingrid Ellen

About Ingrid Ellen

I am a professor and faculty director of the NYU Furman Center. My research and teaching focus on housing, neighborhoods and racial segregation. My work is grounded in the real-world. I sit on several nonprofit advisory boards and public commissions and previously served as an advisor to the HUD Secretary.

Selected Publications

• Neighborhoods in the 21st Century: What do we know, and what do we still have to learn? Real Estate Economics, 2024.
• Planning for Opportunity: How Planners Can Expand Access to Affordable Opportunity Bargain Areas. Journal of the American Planning Association, 2023. 
• Do Housing Vouchers Improve Academic Performance? Evidence from New York City. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2020. 
• Does Gentrification Displace Poor Children? New Evidence from Medicaid Records in New York City. Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2019.

Recent Courses Taught

• Urban Economics
• Urban Research Seminar
• Special Topics in Urban Planning: Converting Brown Offices into Green Apartments
• Microeconomics