William Apgar

Lecturer in Public Policy
Kennedy School
Office Address
Taubman-454
Mailing Address
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Mailbox 4
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Contact
Phone: 617-495-3951
Fax: 617-496-9957
Email: William_Apgar@gsd.harvard.edu
Assistant
Catherine Fratianni Guevara (617-496-0509)
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William C. Apgar Jr., Lecturer in Public Policy and Senior Scholar at Harvard's Joint Center for Housing Studies, returned to the Kennedy School after leave to serve as Assistant Secretary of Housing/Federal Housing Commisioner at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. He leads the Joint Center's Understanding Mortgage Markets project, an ongoing evaluaiton of the impact of the changing structure of the mortgage banking industry on efforts to expand access to affordable homeownership and rental housing. He also coordinates the Joint Center's research on rental housing and is one of the principal authors of the bi-annual report entitled America's Rental Housing. Active in community affairs, Apgar is a founding member of the board of Preservation of Affordable Housing, Inc. (POAH), a nonprofit organization that acquires, rehabilitates, owns, and manages housing affordable to low- and moderate-income households. He also chairs the board of the Homeownership Preservation Foundation, the leading provider of housing counseling for families at risk of home foreclosure, and serves on the board of the National Low Income Housing Coalition, one of the nation's leading housing advocacy organizations.

 

Courses

Fall

  • HUT-100 Policymaking in Urban Settings

Year

  • HUT-150Y Seminar: Housing, Urban Economic Development, and Transportation

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Research

Research for a complete list of faculty citations from 2001 - present, please visit the Harvard Kennedy School Research Report Online.

Selected Publication Citations:

  • Op-Eds
    • Apgar, William. "Real Estate Industry Should Address Appraisal Inflation, Work to Ensure Accurate Appraisals." Realty Times, January 15, 2005.