Matt Mleczko

Matt Mleczko, PhD, is a Housing and Health Equity Cluster Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the Ralph W. Voorhees Center for Civic Engagement in the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy and the Center for State Health Policy at Rutgers University. Matt studies integration, housing, poverty, and inequality, with a particular focus on the role of housing policies and practices in fostering equitably integrated communities. His research agenda seeks to determine how housing policies and practices that promote integration can alleviate poverty, advance equity, improve intergroup relations, and nurture social cohesion within and across communities. His other research interests are interdisciplinary and span urban sociology/planning, migration, the interconnectedness of housing, health, and education policy, intergroup contact, measures of social cohesion/trust, community-based participatory research, and mixed-methods research. Matt received his PhD in Demography and Social Policy from Princeton University in 2024 and his B.A. in Economics and Political Science from the University of Notre Dame in 2015. He received the 2023 Irving Louis Horowitz Award from the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy for the overall most outstanding dissertation project.