Jenny Schuetz
Dr. Jenny Schuetz leads Arnold Ventures’ infrastructure portfolio for housing. In this role, she oversees AV’s efforts to identify and enact policies that can successfully expand housing supply and make it easier to build more and different types of housing.
Jenny came to Arnold Ventures with more than 25 years of experience in housing policy as a professor, economist, and author. She is a prolific writer on housing markets and authored the book, Fixer Upper: How to Repair America’s Broken Housing Systems.
Prior to joining AV, she was a senior fellow at Brookings Metro and adjunct lecturer in the Urban and Regional Planning Program at Georgetown University.
She previously worked as an economist for the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, as a professor at the University of Southern California and City College of New York, and as a senior research affiliate at New York University. She began her career at Abt Associates Inc.
She received a Ph.D. in public policy from Harvard University, a master’s in city planning from M.I.T., and a bachelor’s in economics and political and social thought from the University of Virginia.
