Affiliated Academics
Larry A. Rosenthal
Other Affiliations:
Executive Director, Berkeley Program on Housing and Urban Policy
Biographical Statement:
Larry A. Rosenthal is Lecturer at the Goldman School of Public Policy and serves as Executive Director of the Berkeley Program on Housing and Urban Policy. He is coauthor, with David Kirp and John Dwyer, of Our Town: Race, Housing and the Soul of Suburbia (Rutgers University Press, 1995), an award-winning social, legal and policy narrative of the historic Mt. Laurel housing rights cases in New Jersey, as well as a variety of articles, book chapters, and research reports. He coauthored, with Greg Wagner and Michael Donovan, a National Association of Realtors-sponsored monograph entitled "Priced High on a Hill: A Study of Housing Affordability in San Francisco." Other research papers have addressed, with various coauthors, the impact of land-use regulation on housing affordability and residential segregation, the effects of prevailing wage legislation on tax-credit housing development, the effects of construction-defect litigation on the supply of condominium and attached housing, and the efficacy of various methodologies in estimating the homeless population. His current research focuses on land use, housing markets and the construction industry, housing segregation, and housing subsidy policies.
Originally trained as an attorney, Rosenthal served as law clerk to the late Justice Marcus M. Kaufman at the Supreme Court of California and was Governor George Deukmejian's appointee to California's Dispute Resolution Advisory Council. He later was an associate at the San Francisco law firm of Hanson, Bridgett et al., and acted as statistical consultant to the United States District Court for the Northern District of California in its implementation of the Civil Justice Reform Act. He also served as policy analyst for the National Park Service's Presidio Transition Team. He has consulted with numerous agencies and organizations, including the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) and the National Association of Home Builders. He serves as board member with the Goldman School's Alumni Association and the Berkeley Food and Housing Project. Rosenthal holds doctoral and masters degrees in public policy from UC Berkeley, a law degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and an A.B. from Oberlin College.
