Claudia Aiken is the Director of New Research Partnerships at the NYU Furman Center and Housing Solutions Lab. Previously, Claudia was Director of the Housing Initiative at Penn based at the University of Pennsylvania, where she led research focused on rental assistance program design and impacts, and on ethnoracial disparities in access to housing programs. She has served as a consultant in multiple municipal housing planning processes, including in Philadelphia and Cleveland. Claudia holds a Master’s degree in City and Regional Planning from the University of Pennsylvania and Bachelor’s degrees in Urban and Environmental Planning and French from the University of Virginia. She has also studied urban planning in Stuttgart, Germany, and Lyon, France.
