George Galster is the Clarence Hilberry Professor of Urban Affairs at the Department of Geography and Urban Planning, Wayne State University. He earned his Ph.D. in Economics from M.I.T. He has published over 150 scholarly articles, primarily on the topics of metropolitan housing markets, racial discrimination and segregation, neighborhood dynamics, residential reinvestment, community lending and insurance patterns, and urban poverty. His authored and edited books include Homeowners and Neighborhood Reinvestment, The Maze of Urban Housing Markets, The Metropolis in Black and White, Reality and Research, Why NOT in My Back Yard?: The Neighborhood Impacts of Assisted Housing, Life in Poverty Neighborhoods, and Quantifying Neighborhood Effects. He is the fifth consecutive generation of George Galsters to live in the City of Detroit.
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