Home
What's New
Research
Education
Publications
Outreach
Media
People
Graduate School of Design Harvard Kennedy School Harvard University Click here to add this page to your list of favorites!
Learn more about the Joint Center for Housing Studies
Important dates and events at JCHS
Contact people at JCHS
Related links
Search JCHS
William C. Apgar
William C. Apgar has served in various positions at Harvard University for over twenty-five years. Currently he is a Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and a Senior Scholar at Harvard's Joint Center for Housing Studies. From 1997 to 2001, Apgar took a leave of absence from Harvard and served as the Assistant Secretary of Housing at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

At the Kennedy School, he teaches courses on urban policy and serves as faculty chair of the Senior Executive Program in State and Local Government. His research interests are in housing, community and economic development, as well as housing finance and capital markets. At the Joint Center, he leads the Credit, Capital, and Communities Project, an ongoing evaluation of the impact of the changing structure of the mortgage banking industry on efforts to expand access to affordable homeownership and rental housing opportunities. He also coordinates the Joint Center's research on home remodeling activity and is one of the principal authors of the Centers bi-annual report on Improving America’s Housing. Active in community affairs, he is a founding member of the board of Preservation of Affordable Housing, Inc. (POAH), a nonprofit organization that acquires, rehabilitates, owns, and manages housing affordable to low- and moderate-income households.

Apgar graduated from Williams College and holds a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University.