Gregg Colburn
Assistant Professor, Real Estate
University of Washington
Box: 355740
website
CSDE Research Areas:
- Wellbeing of Families and Households
In the News:
- Colburn’s Research Featured in Podcast and in Recent HUD Roundtable (10/24/2024)
- Colburn Quoted in Washington Post and the Seattle Times Discussing the Homelessness Crisis (08/08/2024)
- Subsidy Overlaps in Federal Housing Policy are Examined by Colburn, Acolin, and Walter (06/07/2024)
- Colburn Co-authors an Editorial in The Hill: Affordable Housing is the Solution to Homelessness, not Criminalization (04/19/2024)
- Colburn Authors Oxford Bibliography and has Research Referenced in The 2024 Economic Report of the President (03/28/2024)
- Cumulative Housing Cost Burden and Children's Well-being and Health: New Study by Hess, Colburn, Crowder, and Allen (03/28/2024)
- Housing Cost Burden is Focus of New Research by Colburn, Hess, and Crowder (01/18/2024)
- Colburn Discusses Homelessness is a Housing Problem at Harvard University (11/09/2023)
- High Stakes for Homelessness in the Nov. 7th Election: Colburn quoted in the Washington State Standard (11/02/2023)
- Graduate Research Assistant Needed for UW School of Law (06/28/2023)
- Graduate Research Assistant Needed for UW School of Law (7/15/23) (06/23/2023)
- Colburn Appears on NPR's Marketplace Morning Report to Speak About His Recent Book (06/06/2023)
- UW Scholars Convene Homelessness Research Initiative (12/11/2022)
- Colburn & Fyall Analyze the Use of Hotels as Homeless Shelters in New Publication (06/13/2022)
- Population Health Initiative COVID-19 Grants Catalyzed UW Research Community (03/23/2021)
- CSDE Affiliates Colburn and Fyall Issue New Report About COVID-19 And Hotels as Non-Congregate Emergency Shelters (12/07/2020)
- 15 CSDE Affiliates Part of 9 Teams Receiving UW Population Health Initiative Awards (06/26/2020)
Gregg Colburn is an assistant professor of real estate in the University of Washington’s College of Built Environments. In his research, Gregg studies housing policy, housing markets, housing affordability, and homelessness. Gregg is the author of the forthcoming book, Homelessness is a Housing Problem (University of California Press, 2022). Gregg is also actively engaged with policymakers, nonprofit organizations, and housing developers on matters related to housing and homelessness in the Puget Sound region. Gregg entered academia after spending the first seventeen years of his professional life in the private sector. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs. Gregg’s additional academic training includes an M.S.W. from the University of Minnesota, an M.B.A. from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, and a B.A. in Economics and Management from Albion College. Gregg enjoys teaching courses in economics and finance at both the graduate and undergraduate level.