Anthony Downs

Biographie : Anthony Downs Senior Fellow Brookings Institution Anthony Downs is a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington D.C. Brookings is a private, non-profit research organization specializing in public policy studies. Before that, he was for 18 years a member and then Chairman of Real Estate Research Corporation, a nationwide consulting firm advising private and public decision-makers on real estate investment, housing policies, and urban affairs. He has served as a consultant to many of the nation's largest corporations, to major developers, to dozens of government agencies at local, state, and national levels (including the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the White House), and to many private foundations. From 1967, when President Johnson appointed him to the National Commission on Urban Problems, to 1989, when HUD Secretary Jack Kemp appointed him to HUD's Advisory Commission on Regulatory Barriers to Affordable Housing, he has been an advisor to HUD Secretaries of both parties. He is also a director or trustee of the MassMutual Life Insurance Company, the Pittway Corporation, General Growth Properties, Bedford Property Investors, Essex Property Trust, the NAACP Legal and Educational Defense Fund, the Urban Land Institute, the National Housing Partnership Foundation, and the Urban Institute. Dr. Downs is the author or co-author of 18 books and over 400 articles. His latest books are Stuck in Traffic (1992) and New Visions for Metropolitan America (1994), from Brookings and the Lincoln Institute, a A Re-Evaluation of Residential Rent Control (1996), from the Urban Land Institute. Dr. Downs is a frequent speaker on real estate economics, housing, urban policies, and other topics. He made over 1,000 speeches to hundreds of organizations of all types, and is well-known for using humor to enliven his subjects.