Ira Goldstein

Ira Goldstein, Ph.D., is Senior Advisor in the Policy Solutions group at Reinvestment Fund; he served as President from 1999 through 2023. Goldstein has conducted spatial and statistical analyses in communities across the US. Those studies are used by government and philanthropy to craft policy and allocate public and philanthropic resources. His studies focus on mortgage lending disparities, reverse mortgages, mortgage foreclosures and predatory/abusive lending practices. His work supported civil rights and consumer protection cases. Goldstein created Reinvestment Fund’s proprietary Market Value Analysis (MVA), used to foster investment in communities across the US. He also created the Displacement Risk Ratio (DRR), a tool used to identify areas where residents are at risk of price-related displacement, and contributed to the crafting of Reinvestment Fund’s proprietary Limited Supermarket Access (LSA) and Childcare Gap measures.

Goldstein earned a BA, MA and PhD (Sociology) from Temple University. For almost 40 years, Goldstein has been a Lecturer for University of Pennsylvania’s (Penn) Urban Studies program. He teaches research methods, statistics, and housing policy. Goldstein is a Fellow with Penn’s Institute for Urban Research and sits on the Board of Children First PA. Before Reinvestment Fund, Goldstein was Mid-Atlantic Director of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity at HUD.