Alan Mallach

Alan Mallach is a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Metropolitan Policy Program of The Brookings Institution in Washington, DC, where his work focuses on foreclosures, neighborhood stabilization and the revitalization of older industrial cities. He is also a visiting scholar in the community affairs department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, and a lecturer in the graduate city planning program at Rutgers University. He has been a consultant, advocate and public official, including serving as Director of the Department of Housing & Development in Trenton, New Jersey from 1990 to 1999. His latest book, A Decent Home: Planning, Building and Preserving Affordable Housing has just been published by Planners Press and the University of Chicago Press. He is also the author of Bringing Buildings Back: From Vacant Properties to Community Assets and many other works on city planning, housing and Italian opera. He is a member of the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Certified Planners, and holds a B.A. degree from Yale University.