Carolina Reid

Faculty Research Advisor, Terner Center for Housing Innovation
Associate Professor, Department of City and Regional Planning

Carolina Reid is an associate professor in the department of city and regional planning and the faculty research advisor for the Terner Center for Housing Innovation. She specializes in housing and community development, with a specific focus on access to credit, housing and mortgage markets, urban poverty, and racial inequality.  Current projects with the Terner Center include research to understand the rising costs of construction in California, the benefits of affordable housing for low-income families, and the role of inequalities in mortgage lending post-recession on the racial wealth gap. 

Reid has consulted on projects for the California Department of Housing and Community Development, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Center for Community Capital, and Abt Associates, as well as community development nonprofits.  Her scholarship has been covered in national and international media, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, National Public Radio, and local outlets such as The Mercury News and the San Francisco Chronicle. Before joining the faculty at UC Berkeley, Reid worked at the Center for Responsible Lending, where she undertook policy analyses on how provisions in Dodd-Frank could affect future access to credit for lower-income and minority households. Before that, she served as the research manager for the community development department at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. She has a B.A. from Stanford University and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle.