Chandler Ian Wilkins is a research associate in the Housing and Communities Division at the Urban Institute. His work examines the impacts of natural hazards on low-income communities, particularly in federally assisted housing, while pursuing solutions and interventions to better support these populations. His research also addresses climate change adaptation and mitigation, resiliency planning, and community development. Wilkins has published peer-reviewed articles in the Journal of Planning Education and Research, Land Use Policy, and the Journal of Environment and Planning Management.

Wilkins holds a BS in community and regional planning from Iowa State University and a master of urban planning, a PhD in urban and regional science, and certificates in sustainable urbanism and environmental hazard mitigation from Texas A&M University.