Housing Economist
KEVIN ALAN PARK
ABOUT ME
I am the father of two spirited children and husband to an amazing wife. We live outside Burnsville in Yancey County among the Black Mountains of Western North Carolina.
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I have been a housing economist for more than 15 years, focusing on market stability, affordability, and equality. In particular, I have worked extensively on the role of the Federal Housing Administration.
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I am also am amateur homesteader, tending a vegetable garden and raising chickens and sheep. I enjoy old time country music and even occasionally try to play a banjo.
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EXPERIENCE
LEAD ASSOCIATE
July 2022 - present
Fannie Mae
Economic and Strategic Research
ECONOMIST/SOCIAL SCIENCE ANALYST
August 2015 - July 2022
US Department of Housing and Urban Development
Office of Policy Development and Research
Housing Finance Analysis Division
GRADUATE RESEARCH ASSISTANT
June 2009 - August 2015
UNC Center for Community Capital
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
VISITING LECTURER
Spring 2013, Spring 2014
Sanford School of Public Policy
Duke University
RESEARCH ASSISTANT
August 2007 - June 2009
Joint Center for Housing Studies
Harvard University
RESEARCH FELLOW
June 2006 - August 2007
Rhode Island Economic Policy Council
INDEPENDENT CONSULTING
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2014 - North Carolina Housing Finance Agency, Raleigh, NC.Â
2010 - Massachusetts Housing Partnership, Boston MA.
EDUCATION
PHD, CITY & REGIONAL PLANNING
December 2015
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
GRADUATE CERTIFICATE, GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SCIENCES
May 2012
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
MPA, PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
May 2007
Brown University
BA, ECONOMICS AND GOVERNMENT
May 2006
College of William & Mary
SELECTED PAPERS
HONORS AND AWARDS
IMPACT AWARD
April 2013
Graduate Education Advancement Board
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"For exceptional research with direct benefits to North Carolina"
GIS SCHOLARSHIP
September 2011
​North Carolina ArcGIS Users Group
HIGH HONORS
Undergraduate Senior Thesis
"The Fourteenth Colony: An Economic History of Nova Scotia During the American Revolution and its Aftermath"
PHI BETA KAPPA
December 2005
Alpha Chapter of Virginia
CONTACT
kevinapark [at] gmail.com
