Director of Case Studies, Harvard University

Housing Policy * Public Housing * Social Policy

Howard Husock is the director of case studies in public policy and management at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He is also a member of the research staff of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government. Before joining Harvard University, Mr. Husock was an Emmy award winning journalist and documentary filmmaker.

• Mr. Husock has published widely on housing and social policy. His articles have appeared in numerous popular and professional publications, including the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Public Interest, the New Democrat, City Journal, Critical Review, Reason, and Historic Preservation News.
• His policy study "Repairing the Housing Ladder: Toward a New Housing Policy Paradigm," published by the Reason Public Policy Institute in 1996, focuses on the problems of affordable housing and lays the foundation for a market-oriented approach to housing policy.
• Mr. Husock has been a speaker at housing policy forums sponsored by the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, the California Department of Housing and Community Development, the Massachusetts Department of Communities and Development, Canada's Urban Development Institute and the Kennedy School's executive education program for officials in the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
• Mr. Husock is a graduate of the Boston University School of Public Communication and was a Mid-Career Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University from 1991-92.
• He also served as an elected member of the Brookline Town Meeting from 1982-90.