Eric Belsky

Eric Belsky led the Center for four years before being appointed to head the Federal Reserve Board’s Division of Consumer and Community Affairs. In addition to his post as director of the Center, he was a lecturer in urban planning and design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He previously led the Housing Finance and Credit Analysis Group at Price Waterhouse LLP, was director of Housing Finance Research at Fannie Mae, senior economist at the National Association of Home Builders, and assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. In 2001 and 2002, Belsky served as research director for the bipartisan Millennial Housing Commission, established by Congress. Belsky co-edited Moving Forward: The Future of Consumer Credit and Mortgage Finance and Revisiting Rental Housing: Policies, Programs, and Priorities (with Nicolas Retsinas) and Homeownership Built to Last: Balancing Access, Affordability, and Risk after the Housing Crisis (with Chris Herbert and Jennifer Molinsky).