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NCST’s work increases access to homeownership, promotes resilient neighborhoods, and advances racial equity by advocating for policy change.
Our guest speaker will be..
Benjamin Preis
Director of the National Housing Crisis Task Force and
Senior Research Fellow at Nowak Metro Finance Lab
As the nation finds itself in a housing crisis related to a massive gap in housing supply versus demand, the need for coalitions focused on housing production and preservation remains at the center of building a housing ecosystem that can provide immediate as well as long-term solutions.
The bipartisan National Housing Crisis Task Force was formed by a coalition of ambitious leaders and practitioners to identify and scale the most promising innovations in housing production and preservation. The Task Force focuses on five key segments of housing interventions: land, construction, capital, regulation, and governance.
Please join us to learn more about the Task Force’s national housing vision and the guiding principles that support their mission.
Benjamin Preis, PhD, is a Senior Research Fellow at the Nowak Metro Finance Lab and the Director of the National Housing Crisis Task Force. As Director of the Task Force, he is responsible for all deliverables and day-to-day activities. In his role at the Nowak Metro Finance Lab, he leads the lab’s work on national, state, and local housing policy. Ben has published numerous peer-reviewed articles in academic journals, including Urban Studies, Urban Affairs Review, and the Annals of the American Association of Geographers. His work has been profiled in popular media outlets such as Vox, Governing Magazine, and NPR’s Marketplace. He has previously worked with the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh, the Cambridge Housing Authority, and the Center for Public Studies in Santiago, Chile. In a previous role, Ben worked in government relations for universities and research associations at Lewis-Burke Associates. He holds a master’s degree in City Planning and a PhD in Urban Science and Policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received a Bachelor of Science in Physics and Peace and Justice Studies from Tufts University.
NCST’s work increases access to homeownership, promotes resilient neighborhoods, and advances racial equity by advocating for policy change.