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The State of the Nation’s Housing 2026
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Becca Heilman

Graduate Research Assistant

Becca Heilman is a graduate research assistant at JCHS and a Master in City Planning candidate at MIT focused on housing policy and finance and equitable neighborhood development. She holds a BA in Public Policy and Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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