Press

Book Reviews

• Gebieds Ontwikkeling [Area Development], August 17, 2022, "Als Kapitaal de Stad Overneemt."
  
• Carolina Planning Journal, January 2022, "Review: Capital City."
  
• Countercurrents, September 26, 2021, "The Real Estate State?"
  
• Boletin de la Asociacion de Geografos Espanoles, September 2021.
  
• Angles from the Carolina Planning Journal, April 2021, "Reading for the Job Search and the Soul Search: Capital City & Prophetic City."
  
• Counterfutures, March 2021, "The Path Home: Dismantling the Supremacy of Real Estate."
• Middle States Geographer, 2020, 53: 51-60, "Gentrifications: A Review of Recent Books on Gentrifying American Cities." 
  
• Journal of Urban History, September, 2020, "Who Owns the Waterfront?"
  
• New York Labor History Association, June, 2020, "Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State."
• Design Exchange, May 19, 2020, "Book Review: Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State."
• Rabble, review of Transformative Planning, May 14, 2020, "To Fight Neoliberalism in Cities, Planners Must Work with Activists."
• Real Change, April 1, 2020, "Wealth and the City."
• The Metropole, February 9, 2020, "Boston on Sam Stein's Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State."
• Yes! Magazine, February 19, 2020, "Antidotes to Gentrification: Plans for Democratized, Affordable Housing."
• New Labor Forum, February 11, 2020, "Whose Right to the City?"
• Planum: The Journal of Urbanism, 2019, "Planners of the World, Unite!"
  
• Democratic Left, December 11, 2019, "Bleak House."
• Alifya, December 1, 2019, "Negara Real Estate."
• Cassa Della Cultura , November 25, 2019, "Le Citta Tra Mercato E Gentrificatione."  
• The New Yorker, November 20, 2019, "The Plight of the Urban Planner."
• Public Books, October 28, 2019, "Cities Run By Real Estate."
• Los Angeles Review of Books, October 2, 2019, "Unmaking the Real Estate State."
• London School of Economics Review of Books, September 29, 2019.
• The Architectural Review, September, 2019, "Neighborhood Botch: The Real-Estate State and the Empire of Finance."
• The Advocate, September 25, 2019.
• Antipode, September 12, 2019.
• Journal of Urban Regeneration and Renewal, September 2019.
  
• Progressive City, August 26, 2019, "Review of Samuel Stein's Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State."
• International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, August 16, 2019.
• Journal of Planning Education and Research, August 6, 2019.
• Pacific Standard, July 8, 2019, "Can Cities Build Their Way to Housing Equity? A New Book Suggests Not."
• Briarpatch, July 2, 2019, "The Rise of the Real Estate State."
• City Watch, June 20, 2019, "Why Is the Rent So High? A Review of Samuel Stein's Capital City."
• The Urbanist, May 15, 2019, "Plan Cities for the Working Class not for Real Estate Tycoons, Sam Stein Urges in 'Capital City.'"
• The Indypendent, May 10, 2019: "Activist Scholars Take on Big Developers."
• The Seattle Times, May 10, 2019: "What Does 'an Anti-Capitalist' City Look Like? In 'Capital City,' and Urban Planner Investigates."
• Society and Space review forum on Capital City, May 1, 2019:
• "Capital City and the Nation's Capital" by Amanda Huron
• "Planning for Justice" by Erin McElroy
• "A New Age or Swan Song for Radical Planning in New York City?" by Suleiman Osman
• "Community Organizing, Human Rights, and Capital City" by Rob Robinson
•  "Cities, Consent, and Coercion" by Elvin Wyly
• "Capital City: A Response" by Samuel Stein
• Real Life Magazine, April 23, 2019, "Built to Shill."
• The Stranger, April 23, 2019, "Trump Makes a Whole Lot of Sense If We See Him as a Landlord in the White House."
• Knock, March 7, 2019, "Samuel Stein's 'Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State' and What it Means for LA."

Radio/TV/Podcast Interviews

• Nostalgia Trap (podcast), January 18, 2024, "The Social Housing Question"
  
• NBC 4 (TV), October 20, 2023, "NYC Isn't Worst Place in US Renters, But Newark Is."
  
• WCBS 880 (radio), October 17, 2023, "On the Record."
• Fox 5 (TV), October 17, 2023, "A Third of NYC Renters Are Paying Half Their Income to Rent."
• ABC 7 (TV), October 17, 2023, "34% of New Yorkers Giving Half Their Income Away in Rent."
  
• Future of the American City (podcast), February 16, 2022, "Sam Stein."
  
• Tenant Action Today (TV), November 9, 2022, "Public Housing in Vienna."
  
• FAQ NYC (podcast), October 27, 2022, "Sandy Was Just the Start. Is New York City Building Resiliently Enough for What's Coming Next?"
  
• Nostalgia Trap (podcast), October 25, 2022, "How to Build a City, w/ Andrew Schustek and Samuel Stein."
  
• WBAI (radio), May 9, 2022, Housing Notebook.
  
• Fox 5 NY (TV), May 4, 2022, "NYC Rent Hike Could Affect 1M Apartments with Up to 9% Increase."
  
• Making Contact (podcast), March 30, 2022, "Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State."
  
• The B1M (web documentary), December 15, 2021, "Why New York's 'Billionaire's Row' is Half Empty."
  
• Nostalgia Trap (podcast), November 11, 2021, "Too Damn High."
  
• The B1M (web documentary), September 22, 2021, "Is Hudson Yards Good For New York?"
  
• The Katie Halper Show (podcast/livestream), August 1, 2021, "Dems Let #EvictionMoratorium Expire w/ Sam Stein, Amye Cutlip & Paul Williams."
  
• Bob Herbert's Op-Ed.TV (CUNY TV), March 1, 2021, "The Looming Mortgage Crisis."
  
• Brian Lehrer Show (radio), February 9, 2021, "The Mayor's Impact on Housing."
• WNYC (radio), February 9, 2021, "Housing in NYC Remains Unaffordable, Report Says."
  
• Conversations from Away (podcast), January 25, 2020, "Gentrification and Housing Discrimination."
  
• Bronx Talk (BronxNet TV), December 7, 2020, interview with Gary Axelbank and Derrick Lovette about converting foreclosed buildings into social housing.
  
• Hidden Cities (podcast), December 2020, "Episode 5: Inclusionary Zoning."
• Inside City Hall (New York 1), November 19, 2020, "Experts Urge Political Leaders to Take Swift Action to Prevent Full-Blown Housing Crisis." 
• Money Power Land Solidarity (podcast), September 28, 2020, "Gentrification and the Real Estate State with Samuel Stein."
  
• Blueprint for Living (Australian public radio), August 29, 2020, "New York Is Sinking; Is There a Plan?"
  
• What's Wrong With (podcast), March 4, 2020, "Why Do We Live In a Real Estate State?"
• Interstitial (podcast), September 31, 2019, "Capital City by Samuel Stein."
• The Highlands Bunker (podcast), September 19, 2019, "The Housing Episode (w/ Samuel Stein and Shyanne Miller)."
• Connecting the Dots (podcast), August 21, 2019, "The Real Estate State."
• The Majority Report (live stream and podcast), August 13, 2019, "'Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State' with Samuel Stein."
• CounterPunch Radio (podcast), July 29, 2019, "Samuel Stein – Episode 134."
• Blueprint for Living (Austrian public radio), June 28, 2019, "Capital City: Urban Planning and the Real Estate State."
• A Correction (podcast), June 23, 2019, "The Real Estate State."
• Below the Radar (podcast), May 21, 2019, recording of a lecture given at Simon Fraser University and a discussion with SFU professor Jeff Derksen.
  
• Antifada (podcast), May 15, 2019, "The Housing Monster with Samuel Stein"
• The Dig (podcast), May 2, 2019, "Real Estate Capitalism and Gentrification with Samuel Stein."
• Behind the News (Pacifica Radio, KPFA and KFCF), March 14, 2019, interview about gentrification and capitalist urban planning.
• Brooklyn This Week (podcast), March 15, 2019, "Downtown Brooklyn's Skyscrapers Tell Conflicting Stories of Development."
• Gentrification Express: Breaking Down the BQX, released August 2nd, 2017, Documentary film.
• America Divided (Epix), September 30, 2016, interview with Norman Lear about New York City’s affordable housing crisis.
• The Morning Show (WBAI), September 9, 2016, tax increment financing and the Brooklyn-Queens streetcar plan.
• The Morning Show (WBAI), April 7, 2016, interview about de Blasio’s planning and zoning initiatives.
• Behind the News (Pacifica Radio, KPFA and KFCF), March 24, 2016, interview about New York City zoning and housing policy.
• Behind the News (Pacifica Radio, KPFA and KFCF), March 26, 2015, interview about the de Blasio mayoralty.
• New York 1, May 30th, 2013, “Rent Guidelines Board Holds Public Hearing to Discuss Proposed Increases.”
• New York 1, April 24, 2013, “Sandy Recovery Stresses Need For Tenants To Know Their Rights.”
• New York 1, January 8th, 2013, “Far Rockaway Tenants Left In The Dark After Sandy Still Had To Pay Rent.”
• New York 1, April 11, 2013, “Advocates Say Tenants Don't Owe Back Rent For Post-Sandy Time Without Utilities.”
• New York 1, March 19, 2013, “Some Far Rockaway Residents Fight To Get Back Rent Paid Without Basic Services After Sandy.”
• CUNY TV, December 20, 2012, “Affordable Housing: Middle Class New Yorkers feel the squeeze.”
• New York 1, December 19, 2012, “Renters' Advocates Share How to Cope with Sandy Repairs."
• NY1, November 29th, 2012, "Brooklyn Renter Wants Security Deposit Back to Deal With Sandy Damage."
• WBAI interview, October 1st, 2012, "With New Rent Increases About to Take Effect, Advocates Are Calling For a Modern day "Poor Tax."
• Apparent Reason podcast interview, September 7, 2012, "Rent Regulation and NYC's Tenant Neighborhoods."
• WBAI interview, June 18, 2012, Housing Notebook.

Coverage, Quotes and References

• Gothamist, April 24, 2024, "A Hotel Row in Queens Is Getting a New Look. New Affordable Housing Is Part of the Mix."
  
• City and State, April 18, 2024, "Report: Rent Increase Up to 4% and 7% would maintain rent stabilized landlords' profits."
  
• City Limits, April 9, 2024, "Staring Down the Wrecking Ball, These Brooklyn Grandmothers Won't Be Moved."
  
• Amsterdam News, April 4, 2024, "Exploring Solutions to Harlem's High Eviction Rates."
  
• The Real Deal, April 1, 2024, "Housing Crisis Triggers New Models of Public Housing."
  
• MSN, March 31, 2024, "'You Need These People': New York's Millionaire Class Has Welled Since the Pandemic, While Lower-Income Residents Are Leaving in Droves. What Gives?"
  
• Gothamist, March 25, 2024, "NYC Is Adding More Affordable Apartments Than Ever. But Who Are They Meant For?"
• Hellgate, March 13, 2024, "Powerful New York Lawmakers Call for Good Cause Eviction—Kind Of." 
  
• Carribean Life, March 11, 2024, "Intensified Calls for Passage of Good Cause Eviction."
  
• Gothamist, February 26, 2024, "NYC: Landlords Are Keeping Fewer Stabilized Apartments Vacant Than You Think."
  
• Brooklyn Paper, February 23, 2024, "'This Is About Basic Rights': Tiffany Place Tenants Push for Good Cause to Protect Them From Unfair Rent Hikes and Unjust Evictions."
  
• Hellgate, February 23, 2024, "Report: New York's Do-Nothing Lawmakers Are Making the Housing Crisis Worse."
  
• BK Reader, February 23, 2024, "Market-Rate Tenants Are Pushed to the Brink, Report Says."
  
• Amsterdam News, February 15, 2024, "AM Mitaynes Makes Another Push to Pass TOPA Housing Law."
  
• New York Focus, February 9, 2024, "Ulster County Leaders Struggle to Rein In Real Estate Tax Breaks."
  
• City Limits, February 7th 2024, "Proposed State 'Social Housing' Authority Would Build Affordable Homes Outside the Private Market."
  
• Commercial Observer, February 6th, 2024, "Activists and NY Pols Pitch $5B State Agency to Develop Affordable Housing."
  
• Bloomberg, February 5th, 2024, "Why NYC Apartment Buildings Are On Sale for 50% Off."
  
• New York Times, January 28, 2024, "The Tax Break New York Relied on to Build Housing Is Gone. What's Next?"
  
• City Limits, January 23, 2024, "'Placeholder' Politics: Gov. Hochul's 421-a Replacement Leaves Room for Negotiation."
  
• City Limits, January 19, 2024, "'Eviction is a Tragedy': Tenant Advocates Press to Expand Right to Counsel Statewide.
  
• The Guardian, January 18, 2024, "Stadium First, Affordable Housing Later?"
  
• Current Affairs, January 10, 2024, "The Shoplifting 'Epidemic' is a Lie."
  
• Hellgate, January 9, 2024, "Hochul's 2024 State of the State: Heavy on Taylor Swift, Light on Tenant Protections."
  
• Gothamist, December 27, 2023, "NYC's Latest Affordable Housing Program Targets Areas Locking Out Low-Income Renters."
  
• The Point, Issue 31, December 17, 2023, "Venice Architecture Biennale."
  
• The Mainlander, December 14, 2023, "Understanding Canada's State-Backed Real Estate Crisis."
  
• Daily News, December 3, 2023, "NYC Sees Massive Demand for Accessory Housing Pilot, Queens Leads."
  
• New York Post, November 20, 2023 "Condo Listing to Rent Half a Queen Bed for $655 Goes Viral."
  
• City Limits, November 16, 2023, "Full Package of Rental Voucher Laws Not on Mayor's Agenda, Despite Veto Override."
  
• The Bollard, November 5, 2023, "Stabbing Bayside in the Back."
  
• New York Post, October 17, 2023, "1 in 3 New Yorkers Spend Half Their Income on Rent: Report."
• Gothamist, October 17, 2023, "1 in 3 NYC Tenants Spend Half Their Income on Rent as Affordability Crisis Deepens." 
  
• City Limits, October 4, 2023, "ANALYSIS: 'Social Housing' Bills Expose Ideological Rift Among Housing Providers."
  
• New York Times, September 22, 2023. "Children Are the Casualties in New Yorkers' Daily Struggle for Space." September 22, 2023.
• Hellgate, September 22, 2023. "Eric Adams's Housing Plan Has Some Good Ideas Without Much Urgency."
  
• New York Focus, September 18, 2023. "Could Unions Break New York's Housing Impasse?"
  
• Daily News, September 22, 2023. "A New Bill Would Stop NYC Landlords From Pushing Broker Fees Onto Tenants. Will It Pass? Will It Lead to Higher Rents?"
  
• The Lever, August 16, 2023. "'Friends of the Court' Ask SCOTUS To Raise Rents."
  
• Financial Times, August 4, 2023. "Reinventing Utopia: Self-Created Communities for the Digital Age."
  
• The City, August 3, 2023. "NYC Awards $191M Tax Break to Landlord With 3,000 Housing Code Violations."
  
• Political Currents, July 28, 2023. "The Worst of All Worlds."
  
• Prism, July 24, 2023, "NYC Tenants' Rights Concerns Grow as City Approves Rent Increases."
  
• Cubed, July 14, 2023, "Are the Landlords Bluffing?"
  
• New York Times, June 21, 2023, "NYC Board to Vote on Rent Increase for 1 Million Rent-Stabilized Units."
  
• New York Daily News, May 31, 2023, "Deputy Mayor Torres-Springer Takes Over Housing Portfolio from Outgoing Chief Katz."
  
• City Limits, May 17, 2023, "Groups Tell Speaker Adams: Time Is Now for 'Social Housing' Bills."
  
• Canadian Dimension, May 16, 2023, "Blame Landlords for Canada's Skyrocketing Rents."
  
• Hellgate, May 14, 2023, "Why Are NYC Democrats Endorsing This Landlord-Backed Bill That Would Be a 'Total Disaster for Rent-Stabilized Housing'?"
  
• Gothamist, May 10, 2023, "Empty NYC-Owned Apartments Could Help Solve Housing Crisis, Policy Group Says."
  
• New York Daily News, April 28, 2023, "Most Market-Rate Rentals are Unaffordable to Median-Income New Yorkers, Study Finds."
  
• Politico Pro, April 20, 2023, "Rent Board Evaluates Increases as High as 16 Percent Amid Rising Landlord Costs."
  
• City & State, April 18, 2023, "Good Cause is Good for Economic Development."
  
• Politico, March 30, 2023, "Rent-Stabilized Landlords Saw Historic Drop in Operating Income, Report Says."
  
• New York Focus, March 20, 2023, "Lawmakers Aren't Sure Their Plan to Build More Housing Will Work."
  
• Hellgate, March 6, 2023, "NYC's Affordable 'Social Housing' Is Fading."
  
• City Limits, March 3, 2023, "New York's First 'Good Cause' Eviction Law Falls, Ramping Up Push for Statewide Bill."
  
• Jacobin, February 23, 2023, "Public Housing Works. We Need More of It."
  
• Crain's New York Business, February 23, 2023, "'Social Housing' Proposal Faces Pushback from Adams Administration."
  
• New Republic, February 9, 2023, "More Building Won't Make Housing Affordable."
  
• Huffington Post, February 6, 2023, "Why Rival Sides In The Housing Crisis Plaguing Major U.S. Cities Are Considering Peace."
  
• Route Fifty, January 20, 2023, "The Governors Wading Deeper Into the Housing Crisis."
  
• Hellgate, January 10, 2023, "Governor Hochul's 'Groundbreaking' 10-Year Housing Plan Mysteriously Lacks Any New Tenant Protections."
  
• Gothamist, December 26, 2022, "Luxury Building Residents Contend with No Gas or Heat, Even as Developer Reaps Millions in Tax Breaks."
  
• Jacobin, December 23, 2022, "Los Angeles Is Refusing to Enforce Hard-Won Tenant Protections."
  
• Curbed, December 22, 2022, "Did New York Miss Its Moment to Turn Hotels into Housing?"
  
• City Limits, November 17, 2022, "Empty Rent-Stabilized Units in NYC Decreased This Year, as 'Warehousing' Debate Rages."
  
• Curbed, November 15, 2022, "'If You Can't Exclude Someone, Do You Even Own It?'" 
  
• The City, November 11, 2022, "Rats, Roaches, Leaks: Rent-Stabilized Building Owners Whose Bets Went Sour Delay Repairs."
  
• City Limits, November 1, 2022, "Rise of the 'SHIMBY'? New Report Outlines Steps to Social Housing."
• Hispanic LA, November 1, 2022, "Cuadernos de la Pandemia / Calle Sexta: El Puente de la Discordia." 
  
• Village Magazine, October 31, 2022, "Checklist for Sustainable Building."
  
• The City, October 22, 2022, "Hurricane Sandy Devastated Coney Island 10 Years Ago. So Why Has NYC Added 2,000 Apartments to the Area Since?"
  
• New York Daily News, October 2, 2022, "Huge Backlog of NYC Rent Hike Complaints Leaves Tenants Angry."
  
• City Limits, September 22, 2022, "More People Snagged Units in NYC Housing Lotteries Last Year, But Wait Times Grew."
  
• New York Daily News, September 22, 2022, "NYC Mayor Adams to Open Refugee-Style Camps to House Deluge of Asylum Seekers."
  
• Politico NY, September 19, 2022, "Success Eludes New York's Plan to Convert Hotels Into Affordable Housing."
  
• Gotham Gazette, September 14, 2022, "With Queens Development Decision, Cabán Recasts Progressive Approach to Housing."
  
• The Observer, August 16, 2022, "The Next Dimes Square Is Just Around the Corner."
  
• The Architect's Newspaper, August 11, 2022."COOKFOX Delivers Sustainable, Affordable Public Housing for Seniors."
  
• New York Times, August 1, 2022, "Why It's So Hard to Find an Affordable Apartment in New York."
• Riverdale Press, July 29, 2022, "Going Quick: Cheap Broadway Apartments."
  
• Politico, July 16, 2022, "New York Tried to Make Apartments Affordable. The Opposite Happened."
  
• The Times of London, July 9, 2022, "Inside the World's Skinniest Skyscraper, the Steinway Tower."
  
• Law 360, June 29, 2022, "NYC Housing Tax Break Mostly Backs Middle-Income Units."
  
• City & State, June 23, 2022, "Why Are Rent Stabilized Tenants Getting Rent Hikes?"
  
• Law 360, June 3, 2022, "NY Session Wraps Amid Unresolved Housing Fights."
  
• The Lever, June 3, 2022, "The Real Estate Industry Protects Its Right to Evict."
  
• Times Herald-Record, June 1, 2022, "Despite Advocate's Please for Good Cause Eviction in NY, Bill Passage Seems Unlikely."
  
• Crain's New York Business, May 11, 2022, "Affordable Housing Production to Double Under New City Plan."
  
• NY State of Politics, May 9, 2022, "Housing Supply at Issue in NY 'Good Cause Eviction' Debate."
  
• Politico Pro, May 9, 2022, "Report Seeks to Rebut Concerns About 'Good Cause' Legislation and New Construction."
  
• Financial Times, May 6, 2022, "Too Rich and Too Thin? Welcome to Manhattan's Newest 'Skinnyscraper.'"
  
• City & State, May 6, 2022, "What You Need to Know About Rent Hikes in New York City."
  
• New York Daily News, May 4, 2022, "Tenants, Advocates Jittery as NYC Landlords Push for Increases on Rent-Regulated Apartments."
  
• Jacobin, April 18, 2022, "We Need Public Housing, Not Affordable Housing."
  
• Gothamist, April 12, 2022, "Governor's Nixing of Housing Voucher Program from NY Budget Leaves Advocates Wondering Why."
  
• New York Focus, April 6, 2022, "Hochul Opposes Rental Voucher Program On Basis of Inflated Cost Estimate, Sources Say."
  
• Crain's New York Business, March 31, 2022, "City Website Aims for Greater Transparency During Real Estate Battles."
  
• City Limits, March 31, 2022, "Albany Poised for 421a Showdown as Budget Deadline Looms."
  
• Law360, March 29, 2022, "NY Tax Abatement Led to Atypically High Rents, Report Finds."
  
• City Limits, March 15, 2022, "For Lower-Income New Yorkers, COVID Rents Never Really Went Down."
  
• Slate, March 10, 2022, "The Nickelodeon Cartoon That Taught a Generation to Hate Capitalism."
  
• New York Daily News, March 7, 2022, "Help Tenants Control Their Own Homes."
  
• The Real Deal, March 3, 2022, "Loss of Tax Break Will Deflate Gowanus, Soho Rezonings, Industry Says."
  
• The Real Deal, February 28, 2022, "Black NY Renters 3x More Likely to Face Eviction than White: Report."
  
• Rochester First, February 28, 2022, "Report: Black Renters in NY More Likely to Face Eviction."
  
• City & State, February 18, 2022, "New York City Housing Advocates 'Extremely Disappointed' by Eric Adams' Budget."
  
• City & State, February 14, 2022, "What Is Midtown's Post-Pandemic Recovery Playbook?"
• Common Edge, February 14, 2022, "Big Real Estate's Continuing Stranglehold Over New York City." 
  
• The Village Voice, February 11, 2022, "Can New Mayor Eric Adams Fix Homelessness in NYC?"
  
• The City, February 10, 2022, "A Tenant's Guide to 421-a, the City's Biggest Tax Break for Developers and Landlords."
  
• New York Focus, February 7, 2022, "Hochul's Proposed 421-A Replacement Is In For a Fight, Key Lawmakers Signal."
  
• City Limits, February 1, 2022, "NYC's Decades of Disconnect on Housing and Homelessness."
  
• Commonweal, January 24, 2022, "The Bronx Fire."
  
• City & State, January 19, 2022, "Hochul Proposes 421-a 2.0."
• Ithaca.com, January 19, 2022, "The Eviction Moratorium Expired Jan 15 -- What Now for Ithaca?"
  
• City Limits, January 14, 2022, "1,300 Households Apply for Reopened Rent Relief Portal as NY's Eviction Freeze Nears End."
  
• The New Republic, January 10, 2022, "A Bronx Community Bloomed After One Housing Crisis. Can It Survive Another?"
  
• City Limits, January 7, 2022, "As NY's Eviction Moratorium Nears Its End, Will Albany Pass 'Good Cause' Bill?"
  
• City Limits, January 6, 2022, "Hochul Takes on 421-a. Will It Bea Rebrand of the Existing Developer Tax Break?"
  
• Gothamist, January 5, 2022, "Hochul Lays Out Affordable Housing Plan, Makes No Mention of Eviction Moratorium."
  
• Gothamist, December 22, 2021, "Grading de Blasio: In East New York, Mayor's First Rezoned Neighborhood, Promises Fell Short."
  
• New York Times, December 22, 2021, "6 Numbers That Reveal Bill de Blasio's Legacy on Inequality."
  
• City Limits, December 20, 2021, "Newly-Approved SoHo Rezoning Promises Affordable Homes. How Much Will They Really Cost?"
• The Click, December 16, 2021, "After Tragedy, How DoesHudson Yards Move Forward?"
  
• Civil Eats, December 15, 2021, "Young Farmers are Locked Out of the System, and the Asset Economy Is to Blame."
  
• Gothamist, December 7, 2021, "Grading de Blasio: Assessing the Mayor's Performance on Education, Housing, & Transportation.
  
• People's World, November 15, 2021, "Housing is a Big Part of the Ongoing 'Battle of Detroit.'"
  
• Shadowproof, November 4, 2021, "For Migrant Families, COVID-19 Made Precarious Housing Much Worse."
  
• Jewish Currents, October 5, 2021, "What the Jewish Left Learned From Occupy."
  
• Gothamist, September 25, 2021, "Eric Adams' Plan to Create 25,000 Supportive Housing Units Is Doable, But Hurdles Lie Ahead, Say Experts." 
  
• The Baffler, September 16, 2021, "India Walton's Uphill Battle."
  
• The Architects Newspaper, August 23, 2021, "Andi Schmied Infiltrated New York's Billionaire Havens for Her Latest Book."
  
• Bushwick Daily, August 19, 2021, "Rent for 'Affordable' Housing Units Rising With Increasing Average Mean Income."
  
• Jacobin Magazine, August 12, 2021, "Imagine a New York City Not Dominated by Real Estate."
  
• City Limits, August 9, 2021, "NYC2036? How the 2012 Olympics Bid Reshaped New York City."
  
• Associated Press, June 30, 2021, "New NY Rent Fund Sees Website Glitches, But Tenants Hopeful."
  
• The New Republic, June 18, 2021, "Meet the Villain of In the Heights: Alexander Hamilton."
  
• New York Times, June 14, 2021, "New York Has a Housing Crisis. How Would the Mayoral Candidates Fix It?"
  
• The Baffler, June 10, 2021, "Escape from Little Island."
  
• City Limits, June 8, 2021, "Will New York Make Good on Pledge to Convert Hotels into Affordable Homes?"
  
• The City, June 2, 2021, "Battle Over Rent Hikes Turns to Who's Suffered More: Tenants or Landlords?"
  
• The Nation, May 26, 2021, "The New York Story Is Not the Real Estate Story."
  
• The Real Deal, May 25, 2021, "Stringer-Endorsed Development Plan Falls Short of His Campaign Proposal."
  
• New York Magazine, May 10, 2021, "The Destroy-It-to-Save-It Plan for East River Park."
  
• Documented, May 6, 2021, "AAFE, a Nonprofit and One of Chinatown's Largest landlords, Has a Troubling Record."
  
• Tone, April 26, 2021, "Madison's Zoning Debate Is a Distratctionfrom a Meaningful Affordable Housing Strategy."
  
• Pressenza, April 24, 2021, "Earth Day: Humans and Not Capitalism For Our Survival."
  
• City & State, April 20, 2021, "How Will New York Convert Unused Buildings Into Housing?"
• Hunts Point Express, April 12, 2021, "What Sets This Bruckner Boulevard Apartment Building Apart."
  
• The New Republic, April 1, 2021, "The Eternal Quest for the Unicorn Apartment."
• TAPinto, March 16, 2021, "New Report Assesses de Blasio Housing Policy." 
• Village Voice, February 18, 2021, "Does New York Need a New La Guardia?"
  
• Bisnow, February 18, 2021, "New Push to Repeal Affordable New York Opens Old Woulds, Stalling Land Market."
  
• El Diario, February 9, 2021, "Crisis de Vivienda Asequible."
• City Limits, February 5, 2021, "De Blasio's Housing Plan Created More Affordable Units, But Left Out City's Most Vulnerable: Report." 
• Gotham Gazette, February 9, 2021, "Every New Yorker Has a Right to a Roof, We Need an Integrated Housing Plan to Get There."
  
• Gothamist, February 8, 2021, "Can the Next Mayor Turn Around NYC's Affordable Housing Crisis?"
• Amsterdam News, February 3, 2021, "De Blasio's Flawed Housing Legacy: Lessons Learned."
  
• The Riverdale Press, January 17, 2021, "Writing on the Wall."
  
• The Progressive, December 28, 2020, "COVID-19 Exposed the Urgency for a Right to Housing."
  
• The Tyee, December 15, 2020, "Focus on Housing and Jobs or the Climate Fight 'Goes Nowhere.'"
  
• New York Focus, December 3, 2020, "A Million Unemployed New Yorkers are About to Fall Off a Fiscal Cliff."
  
• New York Daily News, November 19, 2020, "New York's 2021 Housing Crisis."
  
• The Real Deal, November 17, 2020, "Tenant Group Sees Opportunity in Multifamily Foreclosures: Report."
  
• Dollars & Sense, November 16, 2020, "Solidarity Beyond the Crisis: How to Truly Build Back Better."
  
• Jewish Currents, Fall 2020, "The Rise and Fall of the Coops."
  
• Santa Cruz Left, October 31, 2020, "Nexdoor.com: Where Private Property Colonizes the Public Sphere."
  
• Verso Blog, October 20, 2020, "Regeneration for the few; Degeneration for the many."
• Dérive, October-December, 2020, "La Comuna o Nada."
  
• The Indypendent, September 15, 2020, "Red Tide Rising: How a Socialist Squad Could Transform City Council."
  
• Jacobin, August 10, 2020, "Calls to Defund the Police Are Joining the Demand to Cancel Rent."
• Knock LA, August 5, 2020, "From Rio to LA, the Olympic Games are Exclusionary Games." 
  
• The New Republic, July 31, 2020, "The End of Housing as We Knew It."
• Jewish Currents, June 22, 2020, "Why de Blasio Defends the Police."
• Dwell, June 4, 2020, "21 Resources on Redlining's Role in Cementing the American Wealth Gap."
•  New Politics, May 29, 2020, "To Make Our Cities Green, We Must First Paint Them Red."
  
• Tribune, May 26, 2020, "Coronavirus and the Housing Crisis."
• The Progressive, April 28, 2020, "The Homeschool Co-op Brings Children Together Through Free Virtual Learning."
• Sydney Review of Books, March 5, 2020, "A Temporary History of Marrickville."
• Mediapart, February 17, 2020, "A New York, la 'Geule de Bois' de L'immobilier de Luxe."
• Platform, February 6, 2020, "Recovering Land Value to Advance Equity: Gowanus, Brooklyn as a Case in Point."
• The Arab American News, February 5, 2020, "Warren Evans Praises 'Self-Made' Mogul at Detroit Rally."
  
• Green Agenda, December 11, 2019, "Jobs, Justice, and a Liveable World: Urban Planning in a Green New Deal."
• PA Times, December 9, 2019, "The Housing Crisis, Public Space and Social Equity."
• The Georgia Straight, November 29, 2019, "Let's Flip the Script on Housing in Vancouver and Start by Dealing with Real People's Needs."
• Meanjin Quarterly, November 27, 2019,  "Our Cities and the Profits of Expulsion." 
• Counterpunch, November 1, 2019, "The Political Economy of Homelessness."
• Urbanitus, October 31, 2019, "Gentrification Is Not a Byproduct of Planned Urban Growth, It Is the Plan."
• The Nation, October 9, 2019, "Bond-Rating Agencies Have the Power to Destroy Radical Dreams."
• The Wire, October 9, 2019, "Indian Cities Have Been Reduced to Real Estate."
• Notes from Below, October 9, 2019, "The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project."
  
• Slog (the Stranger Blog), October 2, 2019, "High Wages Didn't Kill Sitka & Spruce, Seattle Did."
• Black Agenda Report, October 2, 2019, "Newark's Lead-Poisoned Water and the Contradictions of a 'Radical' Mayor: How Do We Fight Back?"?
  
• The Advocate, September 23, 2019, "Panel Explores the Real Estate State with Samuel Stein's Capital City."
  
• Hyperallergic, September 20, 2019, "The Deficiency of Bill de Blasio's Plan for Cultural Equity."
• Gotham: A Blog for Scholars of New York City History, September 16, 2019, "Made in New York? Innovation Economies and Immigrant Precarity."
• Platform, September 9, 2019, "Herbert Gans, Displacement, and the Real Estate State."
• Hudson Valley 1, September 5, 2019, "Gentrification Talk with Samuel Stein at Kingston's Rough Draft."
  
• Gothamist, August 5, 2019, "'They Should Award Me': 5Pointz Developer Squeezes Extra 112 Units Through Legal Loophole."
• Next City, July 25, 2019, "Now's the Opportunity for Cities to Work on Their Zone Defense."
• New Internationalist, July 24, 2019, "Whose City?"
• The Mainlander, July 16, 2019, "Class Struggle in Chinatown: Ethnic Tourism, Planned Gentrification, and Organizing for Tenant Power."
• The Brooklyn Rail, July-August 2019, "Expropriate Everything."
• The Brooklyn Rail, July-August 2019, "Accentuate the Positive: YIMBY in the Service of Development."
• The Baffler, June 6, 2019, "Progressive Posturing."
• The Nation, May 30, 2019, "In the Heart of Real Estate Power, a Housing Movement Nears Victory." 
• The Volcano, May 29, 2019, "Possibilities Emerge Beyond a 'Real Estate State.'"
  
• Jacobin Magazine, Spring 2019, "What You Should Read."
• The Stranger, May 8, 2019, "Tacoma Is Positioned to Displace Seattle as the Region's Center for the Arts."
  
• E-Flux, April 29, 2019, "The Fiction of Convenience Makes Cities Less Livable."
  
• The Atlantic, April 19, 2019, "The City That Apps Built, or Destroyed."
• Pennsylvania Capital-Star, April 1, "So Who's Really to Blame for Urban Gentrification? It's Not Who You Think."
• The Sunday Times (UK), March 31, 2019, "What New Yorkers Really Think of Hudson Yards."
  
• SUM, March 22, 2019, "Politics, Power, and Profit: How Real Estate Runs the World."
  
• E-Flux, March 13, 2019, "The Role of Urban Planning in the Maintenance of Capitalism."
• Planetizen, March 8, 2019, "Planning and the 'Real Estate State.'"
• Gotham: A Blog for Scholars of New York City History, March 5, 2019, "A Call for a Progressive Spatial Politics."
  
• Rights Here, March 4, 2019, "'Capital City' Hits the Shelves."
• Next City, February 28, 2019, "To Save Urban Planners, Cities Need Community Organizers."
• Brooklyn Daily Eagle, February 22, 2019, "BQX Streetcar Plan Jeopardized by Amazon Withdrawal."
  
• The Atlantic, February 15, 2019, "Progressive Groups in Queens Celebrate Amazon's Exit."
• Gothamist, February 1, 2019, "Amazon's NYC Campus, Donald Trump's Rise, and NY's Prison Boom All Share A Common Ancestor."
• CityLab, January 23, 2019, "The Battle for Queens, New York, Is Not Just About Amazon."
  
• Clarion, December 4, 2018, "Members Blast CUNY's Support for Amazon."
  
• Gothamist, November 30, 2018, "Do Amazon's Opponents Have Any Hope of Stopping Queens Campus?"
• The Indypendent, November 9, 2018. "Prime Target: Amazon's NYC Power Play."
• The New Republic, July 16, 2018. "The Rising Politics of (Too Damn High) Rent."
• The Forward, June 20, 2018, “Will Crown Heights Blacks and Jews Unite Against Gentrification?”
• Jacobin, June 14, 2018, “A Hunger Strike for Chinatown’s Soul.”
• The Indypendent, May 7, 2018, “Seeing Green: A Developer Envisions 30-Story Towers Near the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.” 
• World Journal, April 29, 2018, “人口結構改變+中資湧入 紐約華社翻天覆地變化”
• The Advocate, April 23, 2018, "The Struggle for Housing."
  
• Law at the Margins, April 20, 2018, “Imagining Solidarity in the Housing and Labor Movements.”
  
• Queens Latino, March 15, 2018,
  "Community Pushback Limits Development in Jackson Heights." 
• Atlantic Yards/Pacific Park Report, February 16, 2018, "At de Blasio's State of the City, Affordable Housing Rhetoric but Not Details."
• Food & Wine, October 31, 2017, “New ‘Upscale Dive’ Bars Raise Questions of Appropriation.”
• Village Voice, September 13, 2017, “Out-of-Control Gentrification Is Helping Create NYC’s Subway Crush.”
• Atlanta Journal Constitution, August 14, 2017, “Bike Lanes a Gentrifying Tool?”
• BK Reader, August 7, 2017, “New Documentary Is ‘Breaking Down the BQX,’ the Gentrification Express.” 
• Curbed, August 4, 2017, “Gentrification Fears Loom in New Anti-Brooklyn-Queens Streetcar Documentary.”
• Kings County Politics, June 14, 2017, “BQX Back On Track After Union, Housing Rally.”
•  Economic and Social Research Aoteroa, June 2017, "Why Landlords and Investors Love the Aukland Unitary Plan, and Why You Shouldn't."
• Planetizen, May 22, 2017, “‘Plansplaining’ and its Discontents.” 
• Counterpunch, May 12, 2017, “When Housing is a Commodity Instead of a Human Right.”
• Queens Gazette, April 5, 2017, "Justice 4 All Meets for 2nd Time."
  
• Brooklyn Daily Eagle, March 2, 2017, "Panel on BQX Lively, Biting Look at New Transportation Idea."
• Brooklyn Paper, March 2, 2017, "A Streetcar Named Our Ire! Friends of BQX Trolley Say Heights Association Derailed Them!"
• Brownstoner, March 1, 2017, "Brooklyn Heights Association Confronts BQX Proposal at Annual Meeting."
• Brooklyn Paper, March 1, 2017, "Train-wrecked! Transit Pundits Pan Streetcar at Heights Panel."
• Kings County Politics, February 28, 2017, "Transit Experts, Brooklyn Heights Residents Skeptical of BQX."
• Abolition: A Journal of Insurgent Politics, February 4, 2017, "In the Time of Trump: Housing, Whiteness and Abolition."
• Brick Underground, November 4, 2016, “The City Is Exploring Potential Routes for a Brooklyn-Queens Streetcar.”
  
• Metro, October 11, 2016, “Lack of Affordable Housing Is Bad for Your Health, Study Says.”
• The Guardian, October 5, 2016, “Blame It On the Bike: Does Cycling Contribute to a City’s Gentrification?”
• Queens Tribune, September 22, 2016, “Gentrification and Solutions to Stop Displacement.”
  
• Bedford + Bowery (New York Magazine Blog), March 17, 2016, "Are You a 'Scurrier'? 9 Things We Learned About NYC Housing From Socialists." 
• Contesti, 2016, "Democratic Streets (and Cities)."
• The Indypendent, April 9, 2015, "A Tale of Two Bronxes: De Blasio Gives Gentrification a Progressive Spin."
• Next City, November 3, 2014, "Should Community Land Trusts Rank Higher in the Affordable Housing Toolbox?"
• Overleveraged, December 11, 2012, "The Eradication of East Harlem Spells Gentrification."
• New York World, November 11, 2012, "The Heat Is Off: New Yorkers Cope in Cold Apartments."
• Wall Street Journal, October 7, 2012, "How to Negotiate Updates to a Rental Space."
• City Limits, September 23, 2012, “As Biking Booms, Questions of Race, Class and Access.”
• New York Post, June 22, 2012, "Relieved Renters to See Lowest Rent Hikes in a Decade."
• New York World, June 20, 2012: "Albany History: Five Lobby Groups Whose Names Don't Tell the Whole Story."
• New York World, April 30, 2012, "How Does City Set Landlord Rent Hikes for Tenants?"
• DNA Info, May 21, 2012, "How to Find a Rent Stabilized Apartment in New York City."
• DNA Info, May 1, 2012, "Rent Stabilized Tenants Prepare to Protest Hike Vote Tuesday." 
• Streetsblog, May 16, 2011, “Hunter Planners: Expand the Bike Program, Beat the Backlash.”