Alan Mallach

Alan Mallach is a senior fellow at the Center for Community Progress.

Mallach is a city planner, advocate and writer, nationally known for his work on housing, economic development, and urban revitalization. He has worked with local governments and community organizations across the country to develop creative policies and strategies to revitalize cities and neighborhoods.

A former director of housing and economic development in Trenton, New Jersey, Mallach has taught in the graduate city planning program at Pratt Institute in New York City, worked at the Brookings Institution and the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, and spoken on housing and urban issues throughout the United States, Europe, Israel and Japan. He was a visiting scholar at the University of Nevada Las Vegas for the 2010-2011 academic year.

Mallach’s most recent book is Smaller Cities in a Shrinking World, which explores the future of smaller cities in the United States and elsewhere in the light of demographic and climate change. Among his earlier books are The Divided City: Poverty and Prosperity in Urban America, which charts the course of change in shrinking Rust Belt cities, and the uneven effects of urban revival on lower income residents and communities of color; and Bringing Buildings Back: From Vacant Properties to Community Assets, which has become a resource for thousands of planners, lawyers, public officials and community leaders dealing with problem property and revitalization issues.

Mallach holds a BA from Yale University and lives in Roosevelt, New Jersey.