About Jacob Faber
Jacob Faber is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Public Service at New York University. His research and teaching focuses on spatial inequality. Dr. Faber’s scholarship highlights the rapidly-changing roles of institutional actors (e.g. mortgage lenders, real estate agents, check cashing outlets, and police officers) in facilitating the reproduction of racial and spatial inequality.
Dr. Faber’s past work ranges from research on unequal banking costs in America to how race and segregation play a role in the outcomes of complaints made against the police. His most recent work focuses on the racial outcomes of New Deal housing policies. Pulling from census and housing data, he measures the impact that these policies had on the racial makeup of specific cities that are still the most segregated areas of the country today. His work has been published in American Sociological Review, Annual Review of Sociology, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Demography, Social Forces, and Housing Policy Debate. More of Dr. Faber’s work can be found here.
About Alicia Mazzara
Alicia Mazzara is a Senior Research Analyst at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. She works on the Housing Policy team to protect and expand access to affordable housing for people with low incomes. Her expertise includes evaluating the degree to which federal rental assistance programs serve marginalized populations, particularly people of color, and to which people receiving rental assistance are segregated into communities that have historically experienced underinvestment. Mazzara uses her work to advocate for future affordable housing investments.