Expertise:
Affordable Housing, Housing, Real Estate Economics, Mortgage Availability, Disasters & Housing Policy, Southern California Housing Trends, Housing Market, Income Inequality & Homelessness, Privacy and Healthcare, Privacy & Genetic Data, Hospitals and Debt, FinanceAnthony Orlando conducts research at the intersection of real estate, finance, and public policy. He is trained as a microeconomist, blending the insights of urban economics and financial economics. At the core of this research agenda is a focus on economic and racial inequalities.
In real estate, Orlando is best known for his work on housing supply and housing affordability. His latest book, Keeping Races in Their Places, explores the policies that have led to large homeownership and wealth gaps between Black and White Americans—and suggests policies that could close these gaps. In his latest academic publications, he is using new theoretical and methodological approaches to document and understand the growing shortage of housing in urban markets across the country. Many of his papers have evaluated potential solutions, including the construction and preservation of small-to-medium multifamily housing, the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit, and changes in building height limits. Combining his expertise in both finance and public policy, he is investigating how the housing affordability crisis is contributed to income inequality more broadly. He is also working on issues of inequity in the health care market which can result in privacy violations, discrimination, and lack of access to affordable treatment, especially during the COVID-19 crisis. He has proposed new oversight mechanisms and subsidy targeting to protect vulnerable patients and consumers from these potential harms.
Recent Grants and Fellowships:
- Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Visiting Scholar, 2019-present
- Cal Poly Pomona, College of Business Administration, Donor’s Scholar of Analytics, $15,000 (2019-present)
- University of Southern California, Bedrosian Center for Governance and the Public Enterprise Faculty Affiliate (2018-present)
- University of Southern California, Political Institutions and Political Economy Collaborative Faculty Affiliate (2018-present)
- University of Southern California, Graduate School Fellowship, $30,000 (2017-18)
- University of Southern California, Bedrosian Center for Governance and the Public Enterprise & Beverly Hills/Greater Los Angeles Association of REALTORS Research Grant, $5,000 (2017)
- University of Southern California, Lusk Center for Real Estate Research Grant, $10,000 (2015)
Selected Publications:
- Keeping Races in Their Places: The Dividing Lines that Shaped the American City, (Routledge, 2021)
- Letter to the One Percent (Lulu Press, 2013)
- With B.Y. An, R.W. Bostic, A. Jakabovics and S. Rodnyansky, “Small and Medium Multifamily Housing: Affordability and Availability” (forthcoming, Housing Studies,2021)
- With M.D. Eriksen, “Returns to Scale in Residential Construction: The Marginal Impact of Building Height on Affordability,” (forthcoming, Real Estate Economics, 2021)
- With T.H. Byrne and B.F. Henwood, “A Rising Tide Drowns Unstable Boats: How Inequality Creates Homelessness,” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 693(1):28-45, 2021
- With R.I. Field and A.J. Rosoff, “Why Biden needs to make genetic data privacy a top priority: Expert Opinion,” Philadelphia Inquirer, Jan. 28, 2021
- With R.I. Field and A.J. Rosoff, “Am I My Cousin’s Keeper? A Proposal to Protect Relatives of Genetic Database Subjects,” Indiana Health Law Review, 18(1): 1-55, 2021
- With R.K. Green and P.F. Harris, “Breaking Down Silos to Improve the Health of Older Adults: The Case for Medicare to Cover Home Safety Renovations,” Ageing Research Reviews, 62:101120, 2020
- With R.K. Green and S. Wachter, “Opinion: Fannie and Freddie are helping American homeowners during the COVID recession – So why reprivatize now?” MarketWatch, Dec. 8, 200
- With T.H. Byrne and B.F. Henwood, “What the pandemic taught us about the homeless and what we shouldn’t forget,” The Hill, Aug.2, 2020
- With B.Y. An, R.W. Bostic, A. Jakabovics, and S. Rodnyansky, “Why Are Small and Medium Multifamily Properties So Inexpensive?” Journal of Real Estate Finance & Economics, 2019
- With A.J. Rusoff, “The New Privacy Crisis: What’s Health Got to Do with It?” American Journal of Medicine, 132(2): 127-128, 2019
- “Is Trump country really better off under Trump? No. It’s falling further behind.” Washington Post, Nov. 18, 2018
Interviews:
- “Affordable Housing,” SciLine (American Association for the Advancement of Science), Oct. 31, 2024
- “Is that ‘luxury’ apartment of yours really luxury?” — Marketplace, Sept. 19, 2024
- “Talking Headways Podcast: Have Cities Run Out of Land?,” Streetsblog USA, July 25, 2024
- “Best & Worst Cities for First-Time Home Buyers (2024),” WalletHub.com, July 16, 2024
- “State of the Economy and Impacts to Real Estate Development,” Maestro Minute, July 2, 2024
- “The Largest Permanent Supportive Housing Project in Los Angeles,” Spectrum News 1, June 27, 2024
- “Home Insurance Calculator: Estimate Your Homeowners Cost,” MoneyGeek.com, May 22, 2024
- “Cheapest Health Insurance in California (2024 Plans),” MoneyGeek.com, May 22, 2024
- “In 25 years, housing will look different in Inland Empire,” San Bernardino Sun, Feb. 20, 2023
- “COVID-19 devastated Native American health care. Why slash new funding for it now?” Arizona Republic, April 9, 2022
- “Why Zillow hit pause on buying houses,” Marketplace Radio, Oct. 18, 2021
- “Are ibuyers manipulating the market?,” Marketplace Radio, Sept. 29, 2021
- “Cal Poly Pomona names team to overhaul 300-acre Lanterman site,” Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, Sept. 15, 2021
- “Pandemic job losses could fuel a rise in homelessness for years,” City Monitor, Jan. 22, 2021
- “Pandemic could cause twice as much homelessness as the Great Recession,” Marketplace Radio, Jan. 14, 2021
- “‘These Local Problems Do Have Some National Solutions’: A Conversation about Inequality,” Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Feb. 27, 2020
Education:
B.S., Economics, University of Pennsylvania
M.Sc., Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science
Ph.D., Public Policy & Management, University of Southern California
Languages:
English