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Alexander Hermann

Alexander Hermann

Senior Research Associate

Alexander Hermann is a Senior Research Associate at the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies, working on projects related to housing markets, affordability, and housing policy. Alex has been a researcher at the Center for nearly a decade and has helped lead the Center’s flagship annual report—The State of the Nation’s Housing—since 2017. Prior to joining the Center, he worked as a grant writer at a Detroit nonprofit providing housing and treatment services to homeless populations. Alex received a Master’s in Public Policy and a Master’s in Urban Planning from the University of Michigan.

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