Tom Kingsley is a Senior Fellow specializing in housing, urban policy, and governance issues at the Urban Institute, where he served for over a decade as Director of the Center for Public Finance and Housing. He served as Principal Investigator for a parallel national study for HUD in the mid-1990s that assessed Native American, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Housing Needs. He also currently co-directs the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership--an initiative to further the development of advanced data systems for policy analysis and community building in U.S. cities. Other projects he has directed over the past few years have focused on: analyzing neighborhood patterns and impacts of the foreclosure crisis; assessing lessons from HUD's HOPE VI program for urban policy and the future of public housing; providing analytic support to the Annie E. Casey Foundation's Making Connections Initiative; and analyzing the patterns and effects of concentrated poverty in America's urban areas.