Jared Schachner

Research Assistant Professor of Real Estate Development

Jared N. Schachner is an Assistant Research Professor of Real Estate Development in the Smith Department of Real Estate Development at the USC Price School of Public Policy, where he is affiliated with the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate and the USC Homelessness Policy Research Institute. He serves as Research Director of NDSC/SOLACHAN at the Lusk Center.

Jared’s research examines how a range of contemporary urban “shocks” involving housing markets, homelessness interventions, school enrollment, environmental conditions, and digital access reshape — and often reproduce — inequality by race, class, and baseline levels of cognitive and socioemotional development. His studies typically examine these dynamics within vulnerable populations including children and older adults and employ his hometown of Los Angeles as an empirical case. Recent L.A.-based studies have examined whether Housing First interventions’ effectiveness among older adults varies by race and ethnicity, and whether the expansion of school enrollment options and school quality data has coincided with increased neighborhood and school segregation.

This work has been published in peer-reviewed journals including Demography, Urban Studies, Housing Policy Debate, Annual Review of Sociology, Social Forces, and JAMA Network Open. Prior studies have received recognition from the American Sociological Association and The Gerontologist journal, and coverage by the Los Angeles Daily News, NBC Los Angeles, and Education Week, among other outlets.

As a principal investigator, he has secured nearly $1 million in external funding from sources including the National Alliance to End Homelessness, the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, the Weingart Foundation, the L.A. County Affordable Housing Solutions Agency, and First5 LA. He has also helped secure over $3 million in additional funding, including a recent Haynes Foundation award to co-develop a public-facing outcomes assessment system for L.A. County government departments under Measure G.

Jared holds a Ph.D. in Sociology and Social Policy from Harvard, where he was a doctoral fellow in the Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality and Social Policy and a Meyer Fellow at the Joint Center for Housing Studies, and a B.A. in Philosophy, Politics and Economics and Urban Studies from the University of Pennsylvania, summa cum laude. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation at the University of Chicago before arriving at USC.