Solomon Greene

Solomon Greene is a nationally and internationally recognized housing policy researcher and leader. He is the Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the Sturm College of Law and the founding Executive Director of the Center for Housing Research and Innovative Solutions (CHRIS), a University of Denver research center focused on housing supply, affordability, resilience, and innovative building technologies across Colorado and the Rocky Mountain West. He also holds an appointment as Research Professor in the University's Office of the Provost.

Greene was appointed by President Biden to lead the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R), where he managed a team of more than 200 economists, social scientists, and data experts and an annual budget of over $180 million. He served on HUD's Executive Leadership Team, AI Governance Board, and Tribal Intergovernmental Advisory Committee. He was also HUD's lead policy expert on housing supply, housing markets, AI and emerging technologies, and building innovation. He led the Land and Communities Impact Area at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and spent over seven years as a Senior Fellow at the Urban Institute, where his research focused on inclusive growth, zoning reform, and housing policy.

Earlier in his career, Greene was a Senior Program Officer at the Open Society Foundations, a law fellow at the NYU Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy, and an adjunct professor at NYU's Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, where he taught land use law. He clerked for Judge Dorothy W. Nelson on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Greene is the author of more than 50 book chapters, law review articles, research reports, and data tools on housing policy, land use, and urban governance, and contributed forewords to dozens of HUD publications during his tenure leading PD&R. He holds a JD from Yale Law School, an MCP from UC Berkeley, and a BA from Stanford University.

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