Housing Finance & Social Equity: Addressing Race and Racism in Mortgage Lending

Persistent racial and ethnic disparities in access to homeownership have created the need to examine whether—and how—to change aspects of the complex and rapidly changing housing US finance system. This challenge, and the foundational questions it raises, will be the focus of a series of public lectures given by practitioners and scholars as part of a class on housing finance and equity offered by the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning in conjunction with the MIT GCFP and Harvard’s JCHS (see below).

Vanessa Perry, the first speaker in the series, is Vice Dean for Strategy; Special Advisor to the Dean; Professor of Marketing; and Professor of Strategic Management & Public Policy at the GW School of Business. Perry, who has done extensive research on race and racism in mortgage lending, is also a nonresident fellow at the Urban Institute and has served as a senior advisor to the US Secretary Housing and Urban Development and senior economist at Freddie Mac.

• LOCATION: Hybrid: Online & In-Person
• DATE: Tuesday, February 28, 2023 at 11:00 am

Register here to attend online.
The public is also welcome to attend in person, no registration needed: 
MIT Building 9 (105 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge), Room 354.

Co-Sponsor(s): MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning and the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University