Stephen Sherman is a research scientist at the Kinder Institute for Urban Research’s Center for Housing and Neighborhoods at Rice University. He regularly appears on local news programs, such as Houston Public Media’s Houston Matters, as an expert on local housing topics. Mr. Sherman has published in both peer-reviewed journals and through the Kinder Institute, where he is the lead researcher for the yearly “State of Housing in Harris County and Houston” report. He has a PhD and masters in Urban Planning from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a BA in American Studies and English (with a creative-writing emphasis) from the University of Iowa. (Spring 2026)