Benjamin Preis, a Terner Center Policy Fellow, is Principal at Urban Research Advisors. He was the founding director of the U.S.-based National Housing Crisis Task Force, where he was the chief author and editor of its Federal Housing Policy Agenda and its State and Local Housing Action Plan. He currently serves as a Senior Advisor to the Task Force.

Ben has published numerous peer-reviewed articles in academic journals, including Urban Studies, Urban Affairs Review, and the Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 

He has previously worked with the Nowak Metro Finance Lab at Drexel University, the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh, the Cambridge Housing Authority, the Center for Public Studies in Santiago, Chile, and Lewis-Burke Associates in Washington, DC. 

He holds a master’s degree in City Planning and a PhD in Urban Science and Policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received a Bachelor of Science in Physics and Peace and Justice Studies from Tufts University.