Alan Mallach is a senior fellow at the Center for Community Progress, a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and a visiting professor in the Program for Sustainable Planning and Development at Pratt Institute. He is the c-author of the book Inclusionary Housing in International Perspective: Affordable Housing, Social Inclusion, and Land Value Recapture, published in 2010 by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, and editor of the 2012 book Rebuilding America’s Legacy Cities: New Directions for the Industrial Heartland.

Lavea Brachman is the executive director of the Greater Ohio Policy Center and the chief architect of the Restoring Prosperity to Ohio initiative. She is a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and a fellow of the German Marshall Fund for the United States. She has been a visiting fellow at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and a visiting professor in Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning. She is co-author of Ohio’s Cities at a Turning Point: Finding the Way Forward, published by the Brookings Institution.