Kenneth Rosen

• Kenneth T. Rosen. The Case for Preserving Costa-Hawkins: How Rent Control Reduces Property Values, Hurts Small Businesses and Limits State and Local Tax Revenue. Working Paper.
  2018
• Kenneth T. Rosen. The Case for Preserving Costa-Hawkins: Three Ways Rent Control Reduces the Supply of Rental Housing. Working Paper.
  2018
• Kenneth T. Rosen. The Case for Preserving Costa-Hawkins: Who Really Benefits from Rent Control?. Working Paper.
  2018
• Kenneth T. Rosen. The Case for Preserving Costa-Hawkins – The Potential Impacts of Rent Control on Single Family Homes. Working Paper.
  2018
• Kenneth T. Rosen, David Bank, Avani Patel, Brett Fawley, Heather Belfor, Adam Eckstein and Anisha Gade. Rebuilding the American Dream: Strategies to Sustainably Increase Homeownership. Working Paper.
  2017
• Kenneth T. Rosen. The US Housing, Mortgage and Commercial Real Estate Markets Policy and Reform Proposals. Testimony Before the U.S. Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission.
  January 2010
• Kenneth T. Rosen. The Housing and Mortgage Market Problem: A Set of Policy Options. Policy Paper presented to the Obama Treasury Transition Team.
  Washington D.C.
  January, 2009
• Kenneth T. Rosen. Anatomy of the Housing Market Boom and Correction. Wharton Real Estate Review.
  Zell/Lurie Real Estate Center at Wharton
  2007
• K. Rosen, G. Kim and A. Patel. Shopping the City: Real Estate Finance and Urban Retail Development. Brookings Institution Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy.
  2003

At Haas since 1979
1981 – 2005, Professor, Haas School of Business
1978 – 1981, Associate Professor, Haas School of Business
1975 – 1978, Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University
1974, Assistant Professor of Economics, Boston University.
1972 – 1975, Research Associate, Joint Center for Urban Studies of MIT and Harvard University
1971, International Economic Intern, United States Treasury Department
1970 – 1971, Special Assistant to the Director of Research and Program Information, Connecticut Department of Community Affairs
1969 – 1970, Economic Analyst, Connecticut Department of Community Affairs
1968 – 1969, Research Assistant, Professor George France, University of Connecticut

• Current affiliations within Haas or UC Berkeley: Chairman, Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics; Fisher Center for Real Estate Grants Committee
• Member: American Economics Association; American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association; Urban Land Institute Trustee; Real Estate Roundtable; Real Estate Forum; PREA
• Referee: American Economic Review; JMCB, Journal of Finance; Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis; Journal of Law and Economics; Journal of Urban Economics; Journal of Urban and Real Estate Economics; JPE; Land Economics; National Science Foundation
• Prior Board Service: Avitar Holdings, Inc.; Board of Trustees of the Urban Land Institute (nonprofit); Golden West Financial Corporation; National Association of Business Economics – San Francisco Chapter (nonprofit); PMI Mortgage Insurance Co.; National Association of Real Estate Trusts – Investor Advisory Council (nonprofit); Bentley School (nonprofit); Chairman of UCSF Real Estate Advisory Board (nonprofit)

Graaskamp Award
PREA 2003

Koret Foundation Fellow for Study in Israel
1994-1995

Earl F. Cheit Award for Excellence in Teaching, MBA Program
1984

National Science Foundation Fellow
1970-1973

Woodrow Wilson Fellow in Economics
1970

Departmental Honors Fellow in Economics
1968-1969

Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Beta Phi, Lambda Alpha
Honor Societies

Elected Treasurer and Executive Committee Member
Board of Governors, University of Connecticut

Elected to Archons
Society of Outstanding Student Leaders

• California housing crisis could worsen with slower construction, San Francisco Chronicle, 01/24/2025
• Berkeley to scrap single-family zoning to encourage multifamily, The Real Deal, 08/20/2024
• Silicon Valley luxury home market heats up amid AI boom, Yahoo! Finance, 05/28/2024
• Why San Francisco is ‘fine’ despite mass tech layoffs and store closures, San Francisco Chronicle, 02/06/2024
• WeWork to renegotiate most of its leases, weeks after bankruptcy warning, The Washington Post, 09/08/2023
• A California community is fighting back against utopian city funded by ultra-rich, Bloomberg, 09/01/2023
• Apartment construction in Silicon Valley grinds to a halt amid cost crunch, The Mercury News, 08/28/2023
• San Francisco fire sale: Investors ‘bottom fishing’ are buying up city’s downtown at ‘70% discount’, The Daily Mail, 08/21/2023
• Presidio Bay Ventures buys office building in Downtown SF for $41M, The Real Deal, 08/17/2023
• ‘The recovery is absolutely starting’: Why one contrarian office investor is buying in downtown S.F., San Francisco Chronicle, 08/16/2023
• Owners are walking away from downtown S.F. buildings. We mapped 13 in financial crisis, San Francisco Chronicle, 06/06/2023
• Companies are shedding office space — and it may be killing small businesses, NPR, 05/12/2023
• Developers wonder: Who will fill the hole left by First Republic?, The Business Journals, 05/01/2023
• Falling populations could add to economic stress in San Francisco and San Jose, San Francisco Business Times, 03/24/2023
• Is the Bay Area on the verge of a housing construction slowdown?, The Mercury News, 01/16/2023