Christina Stacy

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

ABOUT CHRISTINA STACY

I am a Principal Research Associate with the Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center at the Urban Institute where I specialize in urban economics, equity, and inclusion. My work focuses on the intersection of economics and urban spaces and how housing, transportation, local economies, health, and crime interact. Some of my projects include a study on whether inclusionary zoning and rent control increase the supply of affordable housing and access to opportunity for families with low incomes and people of color, a randomized controlled trial of an unconditional and conditional cash transfer program coupled with job training aimed at reducing youth violence, and an evaluation of the Boys and Girls Club of Puerto Rico\'s two-generation model that builds family well-being by working with children and the adults in their lives together. I am also working with cities across the country to help ensure that federal economic recovery funds are used in a way that promotes an inclusive and equitable recovery from COVID-19. I am the vice chair of the board for Housing Alexandria where I am helping to start a Community Land Trust, and I am on the advisory board for the University of Pittsburgh\'s Master\'s in Quantitative Economics. I am also an adjunct professor at American University. Before joining Urban, I earned my bachelor’s degree from Boston College, master’s degree from the University of Pittsburgh’s Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, and PhD from Michigan State University in agricultural, food, and resource economics.