Rebecca Diamond

May 11, 2021 | Stanford economist; expert in housing and inequality
Rebecca Diamond Rebecca Diamond

Rebecca Diamond

Stanford economist Rebecca Diamond is a specialist in housing and inequality. With a wide-ranging research agenda, she has published on gender gaps in the gig economy, the geography of unequal consumption, rent control, affordable housing development, and the effects of foreclosure. She is uniquely positioned to discuss best practices Hawai‘i should adopt to increase housing affordability and mitigate inequality in the post-covid economy.

How to renovate housing policy in a way that really works

May 11, 2021

Special Guests: Carl Bonham, Executive Director of the University of Hawai‘i Economic Research Organization (UHERO); Colin Moore, Director of UH’s Public Policy Center; and Hawai’i State Representative Nadine Nakamura

Sponsors: College of Social Sciences, Hawai‘i Community Foundation, Kamehameha Schools, Scholars Strategy Network, UHERO, and William S. Richardson School of Law.

Co-Sponsors: Department of Economics, Department of Urban and Regional Planning (DURP), Hawai‘i Appleseed, Hawai‘i Budget & Policy Center, Hawai‘i Economics Association, Public Policy Center.