Karly Nicole Cadenhead

Karly Cadenhead is a second-year Urban and Regional Planning PhD student at the University of Michigan. She holds a B.A. in Anthropology from Texas Tech University and an M.S. in Spatial Data Science and a Graduate Certificate in Applied Statistics from Pennsylvania State University.

Her research interests center on housing, real estate finance, and capital markets, with a particular interest in finance as a mechanism shaping housing development, ownership, and affordability. Her work examines how financial structures, investment strategies, and ownership decisions influence the production and operation of housing, as well as how capital moves through housing markets. She is particularly interested in the intersection of public programs and private investment in affordable housing, alongside broader questions of development costs, returns, and long-term asset management. Her research aims to understand the financial and operational dynamics underlying housing markets and how they shape the availability, affordability, and sustainability of housing.