George Galster earned his Ph.D. in Economics from M.I.T., with undergraduate degrees from Wittenberg University and Case Western Reserve University. He has published over 100 scholarly articles, primarily on the topics of metropolitan housing markets, racial discrimination and segregation, neighborhood dynamics, residential reinvestment, community lending and insurance patterns, and urban poverty. He currently holds the Clarence Hilberry Chair of Urban Affairs at Wayne State University, Detroit, USA.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Galster, G., Tatian, P., and Pettit, K., (2004) 'Supportive Housing and Neighborhood Property Value Externalities', Land Economics, 80:1,pp 33-53.

Galster, G., (2003) 'The Effects of MTO on Sending and Receiving Neighborhoods' in John Goering, Todd Richardson and Judith Feins (eds) 'Choosing a Better Life? A Social Experiment in Leaving Poverty Behind', Washington DC, Urban Institute Press, pp365-382.

Galster,G., Santiago, A., and Pettit, K., (2003) 'Neighborhood Crime and Scattered-Site Public Housing', Urban Studies, 40:11, pp 2147-2163.

Galster, G., (2003) 'Investigating Behavioral Impacts of Poor Neighborhoods: Towards New Data and Analytical Strategies', Housing Studies, 18 :6, pp 893-914.

Galster, G., Quercia, A., and Malega, R., (2003) ' The Fortunes of Poor Neighborhoods', Urban Affairs Review, 39:2, pp 205-227.

Galster, G., Santiago, A., and Tatian, P., (2001) 'Assessing the Property Value Impacts of the Dispersed Subsidized Housing Program in Denver', Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 20:1, pp 65-88.