Aniket Mehrotra is a policy assistant in the Housing Finance Policy Center at the Urban Institute. Before joining Urban, he supported local, state, and national policy efforts to advance racial and economic justice, including at Prosperity Now. There, he coauthored a high-impact report, amplified nationwide to policymakers and economic equity advocates, uplifting inclusionary zoning policies as a key solution to closing the racial wealth gap. Mehrotra graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara, with a BA in economics and minor in poverty, inequality, and social justice.