Rachel Garshick Kleit

Rachel Garshick Kleit
Associate Professor of Public Affairs,
Adjunct Associate Professor Urban Design & Planning
Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1999

Contact Information:
Parrington Hall, Room 209C
kleit@u.washington.edu
206.221.3063

Areas of Specialization:
Housing Policy, Public Housing, Urban and Social Policy, and Social Networks and Social Capital

Rachel Garshick Kleit joined the Evans School faculty in 1999. Her research interests include public and assisted housing self-sufficiency programs; the impacts of housing programs that mix income groups; and connections between housing location, neighborhood composition, social networks, and access to opportunity.

Kleit teaches urban policy, social capital and social policy, U.S. housing policy, and quantitative methods.

She is the recipient of the 1998 Young Scholar Award from the Urban Affairs Association and Sage Publications, and the 1999 Best Student Paper Award in Housing and Community Development from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning and the Fannie Mae Foundation. She is also a recipient of a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Urban Scholar Postdoctoral Fellowship to support research on the New Holly HOPE VI site in Seattle.

Kleit holds a Ph.D. in city and regional planning from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and a MA in urban and environmental policy from Tufts University. She also holds a BA in history from Brandeis University.

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