Claudia Aiken

Claudia Aiken is Director of New Research Partnerships at the Housing Solutions Lab. Her work centers on informing local housing policy with data and evidence, and partnering with cities and housing authorities to study innovative programs. 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.