Marja C. Hoek Smit
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Marja Hoek-Smit is the Director of the International Housing Finance Program of the Wharton School Zell/Lurie Real Estate Center, and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Wharton Real Estate Department and Department of City and Regional Planning of the University of Pennsylvania. Her work focuses on housing and housing finance policies, particularly for low–income groups, housing demand and affordability analysis, the development of monitoring and evaluation systems for urban housing programs, and training in housing finance, housing market development, and urban development.