{"id":15667,"date":"2023-02-13T13:45:24","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T18:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/?p=15667"},"modified":"2023-02-13T13:45:24","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T18:45:24","slug":"alumni-spotlight-sophia-wedeen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/2023\/02\/13\/alumni-spotlight-sophia-wedeen\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni Spotlight: Sophia Wedeen"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Alumni Spotlight<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>is a series highlighting former affiliates of the Initiative on Cities (IOC). We catch up with our alumni to feature their current work, updates, and accomplishments. Today, we highlight Sophia Wedeen, a former Staff Assistant with the Initiative on Cities.<\/em><\/p>\n

Sophia is a research analyst at the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University, a research center within the Harvard Graduate School of Design. In her current role, Sophia conducts quantitative research on housing affordability, rental markets, home remodeling activity, and housing quality and conditions.<\/span><\/p>\n

In her senior year at Boston University, she worked as a staff assistant at the IOC, where she developed and honed her interest in urban research and policy. After graduating with a BA in Political Science and a minor in Economics in 2017, she spent two years working at the City of Boston’s Assessing Department, where she administered a tax exemption program.<\/p>\n

In the last year, Sophia has written about the exposure of rental housing to weather and climate-related hazards<\/a>, the financial burden of home repairs<\/a>, and how the exclusion of rental housing reinforces segregation at the neighborhood level<\/a>. She also worked on several papers on renter household finances, including one published in Housing Policy Debate examining the different measures of rental housing affordability<\/a>. She is currently working on the 2023 iterations of the Joint Center for Housing Studies’ signature reports, The State of the Nation’s Housing<\/a> and Improving America’s Housing<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nVisit Sophia's Joint Center for Housing Studies Profile!<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alumni Spotlight\u00a0is a series highlighting former affiliates of the Initiative on Cities (IOC). We catch up with our alumni to feature their current work, updates, and accomplishments. Today, we highlight Sophia Wedeen, a former Staff Assistant with the Initiative on Cities. Sophia is a research analyst at the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19783,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[177],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15667"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19783"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15667"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15686,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15667\/revisions\/15686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}