Mark Treskon is a senior research associate in the Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center at the Urban Institute. His research focuses on creative placemaking and equitable community development, affordable and subsidized housing programs and policies, regional demographic and economic change, and financial interventions for low-income consumers. Treskon has a bachelor's in geography from the University of Chicago, a master's in urban planning from the University of Toronto, and a PhD in sociology from New York University.