Kenneth Steif

Kenneth Steif is a doctoral student in the City & Regional Planning Department at the University of Pennsylvania. He holds a Master's degree in Urban Spatial Analytics from Penn and has 10 years of research experience augmenting urban policy and planning research with spatial analysis. Besides his interests in housing policy in general, Mr. Steif's main research agenda has been the development of new spatial/statistical models for quantifying Philadelphia's gentrification process. In addition, he specializes in the development of agent-based emergent models of housing and other urban economic processes. This has recently resulted in a grant to coauthor a book on these subjects with Professor John Landis.

Mr. Steif is also a lecturer on the subjects of Geographic Information Systems and urban geography, teaching graduate level classes in Penn's School of Design