Vincent Reina, Assistant Professor of City and Regional Planning, has earned the 2016 Ph.D. Dissertation Award from the Association of Public Policy and Management (APPAM) for his work completed at the University of Southern California Sol Price School of Public Policy. The 2016 Ph.D. Dissertation Award will be presented to Reina during the Fall Research Conference Membership and Award Luncheon on Friday, November 4.
Reina’s dissertation, The Impact of Mobility and Government Subsidies on Household Welfare and Rents, examines the behavior of landlords who provide affordable housing and the formation of policies to ensure the availability of affordable housing for low income households. Reina’s research interests are primarily in housing and urban development, springing from his time interning for AmeriCorps at the “I Have a Dream” Foundation and subsequent professional experience. His work focuses on urban economics, low-income housing policy, household mobility, and the role of housing in community and economic development.
According to Dr. Lucie Schmidt, Professor at Williams College and Chair of the APPAM Dissertation Award Committee, Reina’s “findings have the potential to inform the critical policy debates about affordable housing for low income families and the effects of residential mobility.” The Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) recognizes emergent scholars in the field by presenting an award for the best Ph.D. dissertation in public policy and management.
Originally from Brooklyn, New York, joined the faculty at PennDesign this fall. He holds a PhD from USC, a BS in Urban Studies from Cornell, an MSc in Comparative Social Policy from the University of Oxford, and an MBA from NYU. Reina was previously a Fellow at the Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy at NYU, a Research Associate at the Lusk Center for Real Estate at USC, a Coro Fellow, and worked at LISC and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
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