Solomon Greene

Solomon Greene is the founding Executive Director of the Center for Housing Research and Innovative Solutions (CHRIS) at the University of Denver, where he also holds appointments as Research Professor and Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the Sturm College of Law. CHRIS is the first center of its kind in Colorado and the Rocky Mountain West, producing rigorous research and regional data infrastructure to advance evidence-based housing solutions, including in industrialized construction and innovative building technologies.

Greene was appointed by President Biden to lead the Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R) at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). There, he oversaw a team of more than 200 economists, social scientists, and data experts and managed an annual budget of over $180 million. He served as HUD’s lead policy expert on housing supply, housing markets, building innovation, and emerging technologies, and led the department’s Innovative Housing Showcases.

Earlier in his career, Greene led the Land and Communities Impact Area at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, was a Senior Fellow at the Urban Institute, a Senior Adviser at HUD, and a Senior Program Officer at the Open Society Foundations. He has also taught at NYU’s Wagner School of Public Service and served as a law clerk for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Greene serves as Vice President of the board of the National Housing Law Project. He holds degrees from Stanford University, UC Berkeley, and Yale Law School.