Brendan Andrew O'Flaherty

Brendan O’Flaherty, Ph.D. studies urban economics in relation to homelessness and crime. He has been teaching at Columbia for over thirty years and previously served as aide to Kenneth Gibson, Newark's first African-American mayor.

Research Interests

Crime
Discrimination
Education and Schools
Harm Reduction
Health Inequities
Homelessness
Housing
Income-Based Interventions
Policy
Poverty
Racism
Urban Policy

Datasets

American Community Survey (ACS)
Decennial Census
Mapping Police Violence
NYC Administrative Data