2000115-Strengthening-Communities-with-Neighborhood-Data

About the
Authors
G. Thomas Kingsley, a senior fellow at the Urban Institute, specializes
in housing, urban policy, and governance issues. He served for over a
decade as director of the Institute’s Center for Public Finance and Housing
and for 17 years as director and codirector of the National Neighborhood
Indicators Partnership, an initiative to further the development
of advanced data systems for policy analysis and community building
in US cities. Since 2000, Mr. Kingsley’s research topics have included
analyzing neighborhood patterns and impacts of the foreclosure crisis;
assessing lessons from HUD’s HOPE VI program for urban policy and
the future of public housing; providing analytic support to the Annie E.
Casey Foundation’s Making Connections Initiative; and analyzing the patterns
and effects of concentrated poverty in America’s urban areas. In the
1990s, Mr. Kingsley was codirector of the Ford Foundation–sponsored
Urban Opportunity Program, which produced four books on the status
of urban policy issues in America. Before that, he was the director
of several major policy research programs, including testing the market
effects of housing allowance programs (1974–80, for the HUD-sponsored
Housing Assistance Supply Experiment); analyzing the structure and
potentials of metropolitan Cleveland’s economy (1980–82, for the Cleveland
Foundation); preparing a national urban development strategy for
Indonesia (1982–85, for the United Nations); and helping the Czech and
Slovak Republics design and implement policy reforms in housing and
municipal infrastructure (1991–95, for USAID). Mr. Kingsley previously
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