Publications

Book

• Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State. Verso, 2019.
• Audio book released by Tantor Media, 2019.
• Chinese translation to be published by Yilin Press.
• Thai translation to be published by Sam Yan Press.
  
• Published excerpts:
•  Introduction excerpted under the same title in Next City, March 4, 2019.
• Chapter 1 partially excerpted on the Verso Blog, March 12, 2019, under the headline, "What Is Urban Planning's Role in the Maintenance of Capitalism?"
• Chapter 3 partially excerpted in Progressive City, May 28, 2019, under the headline, "Whatever the Problem, the Solution is Luxury Development: New York's 21st Century Planning Paradigm."

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

• Mironova, Oksana and Samuel Stein. 2024. "When Rising Expectations Meet Rising Reaction: New York's 2024 Housing Policy Fight and the Prospects for the Future." September 10, 2024.

• DeFilippis, James and Samuel Stein. 2023. "Working Class Institutions, Amazon and the Politics of Local Economic Development in Western Queens." Urban Affairs Review, 59 (4), 1080-1101.
  

• Kadi, Justin, Lisa Volmer, and Samuel Stein. "Post-Neoliberal Housing Policy? Disentangling Recent Reforms in New York, Berlin, and Vienna." European Urban and Regional Studies, 28.4 (2021), 353-374.
  

• Stein, Samuel and Oksana Mironova. "Public Land Revisited: Municipalisation and Privatisation in Newark and New York City." In: Nina Gribat and Barbara Pizzo, "The Politics of Land: Dominant Regimes and Situated Practices." International Planning Studies (special issue), 25.3 (2020), 247-260.

• "The Housing Crisis and the Rise of the Real Estate State." New Labor Forum, 28.3 (2019), 53-60.

• Mironova, Oksana and Samuel Stein. “Where Does Public Land Come From? Municipalization and Privatization Debates.” Metropolitics, March 6, 2018.

• “Progress for Whom, Toward What? Progressive Politics and New York City’s Mandatory Inclusionary Housing.” Journal of Urban Affairs, 40.6 (2018): 770-781. 
• Republished in Tigh, Rosie and Elizabeth Mueller. The Affordable Housing Reader (2nd Edition). Routledge, 2021.
  

• “Precarity and Gentrification: A Feedback Loop.” Metropolitics, April 14, 2015.
  

Book Chapters

• "New York." In Cegna, Andrea (ed.). Cosa Succede In Città? Lo Spazio Urbano e L’interesse Economico. Propero Editore, 2021.
  

• Stein, Samuel and Tarry Hum. “The Politics of a ‘New Deal’ for Roosevelt Avenue: Business Improvement Districts, Placemaking, and Community Resistance.” In Hum, Tarry, Ron Hayduck, and Fracois Pierre-Luis (eds.). Immigrant Crossroads: Globalization, Incorporation and Place-Making in Queens, NY. Temple University Press, 2021. 

•  "135 Questions for Those Who Shape and Those Who (Sometimes) Occupy New York City's Extreme Upper Skyline." In Schmied, Andi (ed.). Private Views: A High-rise Panorama of Manhattan. Vi Per Gallery, 2021.
• Republished as "Where Does It End?" in The Baffler, June 28th, 2021.
• Translated into Czech and published in Deník Referendum, November 9, 2021.
  

• "Like Gravity on a Tilted Table: Thoughts on Gentrification's 'Inevitability.'" In Yu, Betty (ed.). Radical Housing Manifesto. Apex Art, 2020.
  

• "Tourism: An Ideology and an Accumulation Strategy." In Tozzi, Lucia (ed.). City Killers: A Critique of Tourism.  Libria Casa Editrice, 2020.
  • Republished in English and Italian on the Dynamo Press website, January 28, 2020.

• "The Poverty of Planning" and "Hudson Yards: A Machine for Investing In." In Angotti, Tom and Norma Rantisi (eds.). Transformative Planning: Radical Alternatives to Neoliberal Urbanism. University of Chicago Press and Black Rose Books, 2019.

• "Three Generations of Trump Schemes: The Private Side of Planning History." In Warf, Barney L. (ed.). Political Landscapes of Donald Trump. Routledge, 2020.

• Hum, Tarry and Samuel Stein. “Gentrification and the Future of Work in New York City’s ‘Chinatowns.’” In Leong, Russell C. (ed.). Asian American Matters: A New York Anthology. Asian American Research Institute, 2017.

• “Chinatown: Unprotected and Undone” in Angotti, Tom and Sylvia Morse (eds.). Zoned Out! Race, Displacement and City Planning in New York City. Urban Research, 2016.

• Angotti, Tom and Samuel Stein. “Lessons from 20th Century Socialism: The USSR and China.” In Angotti, Tom. The New Century of the Metropolis: Urban Development and Orientalism, Routledge, 2013.

Essays

• "Slum Preservation." New York Review of Architecture, November-December 2024.
  

• "HUD Sucker." New York Review of Architecture, November-December 2024.
  

• "The Art of the Rent Gap." N+1, October 25, 2024.
  

• "The Original Trump Towers." Jacobin Magazine, Fall 2024.

• "Social Housing Goes to Washington." Jacobin Magazine, September 18, 2024.
  

• Samuel Stein and Tarry Hum. "Remembering Arturo Ignacio Sanchez, a Fighter for Immigrant New York." Progressive City, April 17, 2024.

• "Musical Chairs." New York Review of Books, March 26, 2024.
  

• "The Social Housing Question." New York Review of Architecture, November-December, 2023.
  

• "What Stands in the Way of Affordable Housing?" Architects Newspaper, July-August, 2023.

• "Robert Moses! Jane Jacobs! Robert Moses! Jane Jacobs!" N+1, July 21, 2023.
  

• Oksana Mironova and Samuel Stein. "Rent Regulation Does Not Mean Neglect: Landlords Are Fearmongering to Gut Tenant Protections." Urban Matters, June 30, 2023.
  

• Oksana Mironova and Samuel Stein. "Another Year, Another Rent Hike: It's Time to Reform the Rent Guidelines Board." Gotham Gazette, June 28, 2023.

• "Open House." New York Review of Architecture #34-35, May 2023.
  

• "NYRA Goes to the Movies: Inside." S K Y L I N E , March 24, 2023. 
  

• "'It Took Us 50 Fucking Years': A Review of Rabble Rousers." Progressive City, March 20, 2023.
• Republished in Jacobin as "Rabble Rousers Shows How Activists Beat the Rich to Build Social Housing in New York City", June 4, 2023.

• 310 West 43rd Street. S K Y L I N E , February 24, 2023.
  

• New York's Housing Is Falling Apart. Here's How to Stop That. Urban Matters, January 11, 2023.

• Leslie Kern and Samuel Stein. "A Broken World." New York Review of Architecture #32, December 2022. 
  

• "10 Takeaways from Vienna's Social Housing System." Tenant/Inquilino, December 2022.
  

• "An Atlas of the Past and the Present, for the Future." Society & Space, November 28, 2022. (Review of The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project's Counterpoints: A San Francisco Bay Area Atlas of Displacement and Resistance.)

• "What Would Mike Davis Bomb?" Jacobin Magazine, July 20, 2022.

• "Remembering Peter Marcuse, an Influential Professor of Urban Planning." The Architect's Newspaper, June 2022.
  

• Udell, Jacob, Celeste Hornbach, Oksana Mironova and Samuel Stein. "Social Housing and Housing Justice: Pathways to Housing Decommodification." Law & Political Economy Project, May 31, 2022.
  

• Samuel Stein and Debipriya Chatterjee. "Five Decades of (Fighting Over) 421-a." Gotham: A Blog for Scholars of New York City History, May 3, 2022.
  

• "Faulty Towers."  The Baffler no. 60, November-December, 2021.
  

• "The Making of Satmar Williamsburg." Jewish Currents, November 23, 2021. (Review of Nathaniel Deutsch and Michael Casper's A Fortress in Brooklyn: Race, Real Estate, and the Making of Hasidic Williamsburg.) 
  

• "Their Right to the City, and Ours." Topos no. 115, summer 2021.
  

• "In New York City, Big Tech Is Bailing Out Big Real Estate." Jacobin Magazine, April 18, 2021.
  

• "Tenants Can't Pay Rent. Landlords Won't Pay Bills. What Happens Next?" New York Focus, December 23, 2020.

•  "On Preventing Pandemic Displacement." Jewish Currents, Fall 2020.
  

• "Unplanned by Design." Verso Blog, as part of the "Hot City" series, August 11, 2020.
  

• Accornero, Guya, Mona Harb, Alex F. Magalhaes, Felipe G. Santos, Giovanni Semi, Samuel Stein and Simone Tulumello. "Stay Home Without a Home." Radical Housing Journal 2.1, May 2020.

• "Remembrance: Michael Sorkin." Jewish Currents, April 21, 2020.

• "Remembering Our Friend, Mentor, and Comrade Tom Waters." City Limits, April 9, 2020. 
  

• Review of Kafui Attoh's Rights in Transit: Public Transportation and the Right to the City in California's East Bay (University of Georgia Press, 2019). AAG Review of Books 8, no. 1 (2020): 56-57. in the January 2020 edition of the AAG Review of Books.
  

• "The Urgency and Uncertainty of 'Progressive Planning' Today." Progressive City, July 8, 2019.

• "Tenants Won This Round." Jacobin Magazine, June 18, 2019.

• "Pode o Planeamento Urbano Minimizar os Efeitos da Gentrificação?" ("Can Urban Planning Minimize the Effects of Gentrification?") Smart Cities no. 23, Summer 2019. 

• "The Zone Defense." Jacobin Magazine, Spring 2019.
  

• "Capital City: A Response," Society & Space, May 1, 2019. (Response to a review forum on my book, Capital City.) 

• "Five Book Plan: Gentrification and Real Estate." Verso Blog, March 20, 2019.

• "Forget 'Machine for Living In -- Hudson Yards Is a Machine for Investing In." The Guardian, March 15, 2019.

• "Gentrification Is a Feature, Not a Bug, of Capitalist Urban Planning." Jacobin Magazine, March 12, 2019.
• Translated into Italian and published as "La Gentrification, Il Capitale e lo Stato Immobiliarista." Jacobin Italia, March 25, 2019.
• Translated into Portuguese and published as "A gentrificação é uma característica, não um problema, do planejamento urbano capitalista." Jacobina, July 25, 2023.

• "New York City's Dance with Amazon Shows Us How to Fight for a City's Future." The Guardian, February 23, 2019.

• Kazi, Olympia and Samuel Stein. "Long Live the People's Urbanism." Jacobin Magazine, February 15, 2019.

• "New York City Has the Country's Most Elaborate Zoning Code. Why Isn't It Protecting Us From Luxury Overgrowth?" Gotham: A Blog for Scholars of New York City History, December 13, 2018.

• Samuel Stein and Rachel Weber. "Our Developer President: A Dialogue Between Samuel Stein and Rachel Weber on Real Estate, Cities, and Trumpery." First of the Month, June 2018.

• "When Developers Threaten Bad 'As of Right' Projects, Rezoning Becomes Ransom." City Limits, March 23, 2018.

• “Vampire Squids and the Mayors Who Love Them.” Village Voice, February 14, 2018.

• “Local Reporting Really Is the First Draft of History.” Village Voice, November 7, 2017.

• “As They Rally Around Rezonings, Planners Often ‘Plansplain.’” City Limits, May 17, 2017.
•  Republished in Progressive City Radical Alternatives, May 19, 2017, under the title: “Planners Explain Things To Me.”

• “‘Good Planning’ is Bad Planning and ‘Progressive’ Is Not Enough.” Progressive City: Radical Alternatives, November 2nd, 2016.

• “How the Trumps Got Rich.” Jacobin Magazine, August 4th, 2016.

• Hum, Tarry and Samuel Stein. “Flushing’s Affordable Housing at Risk.” Gotham Gazette, May 2nd, 2016.

• “New York City Has the Power to Do Better than de Blasio’s Housing Plan.” New Politics, March 20, 2016.

• “The Streetcar Hustle,” Jacobin Magazine, February 19, 2016.

• Special Issue Editor, in collaboration with Clara Irazábal: “Latin Americas, North and South.” Progressive Planning, Number 204, Summer 2015.

• Stein, Samuel and Clara Irazábal. “Introduction: The Politics of Planning Latin America and the Latino US.” Progressive Planning, Number 204, Summer 2015.

• “The Poverty of Planning,” Progressive Planning, Number 203, Spring 2015. 
• Republished in Progressive City: Radical Alternatives, March 27, 2017.
• Republished in Angotti, Tom and Norma Rantisi (eds.). Transformative Planning: Radical Alternatives to Neoliberal Urbanism. University of Chicago Press and Black Rose Books, 2019 (forthcoming).

• “La Guardia’s Heir,” Jacobin Magazine, March 25, 2015. (Review of Eric Alterman’s Inequality and One City: Bill de Blasio and the New York Experiment, Year One, Public Affairs, 2015.)  
  

• Kwong, Peter and Samuel Stein. “Preserve and Protect Chinatown.” Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College, February 3, 2015.

• “Housing and Resistance: Why Affordable Housing Remains a Struggle.” ZEEK, December 17, 2014.

• “De Blasio’s Doomed Housing Plan.” Jacobin Magazine, Fall 2014.
  

• “The Local is Global: Tarry Hum’s Take on Sunset Park, Brooklyn,” Progressive Planning, Number 201, Spring 2014. (Review of Tarry Hum’s Making a Global Immigrant Neighborhood: Brooklyn’s Sunset Park, Temple University Press, 2014.) 
  

• “SPURA, Spurious: A Story of Jews, Politics, and 20 Acres of Demolished Housing on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.” ZEEK, April 10, 2014.

• “Kicking Away the Ladder: Immigrants, BIDs & an Uncertain Future for Street Peddling in NYC.” ZEEK, February 4, 2014.

• “Turning the Tide on Rent Law Enforcement,” Gotham Gazette, June 7, 2013.

• “No Place for Amateurs: A New Stadium vs. Queens Soccer Fields,” Urban Omnibus, February 13, 2013.

• “Occupy Nowhere: OWS after the Eviction,” Progressive Planning, Number 191, Spring 2012.

• “Sites Speak Louder Than Words: Occupy Wall Street in New York City,” Progressive Planning, Number 190, Winter 2012.

• Also published in Urban Review, Volume 9, Issue 17, Fall 2011, and online at In Front and Center.

• “Bike Lanes and Gentrification: New York City’s Shades of Green,” Progressive Planning, Number 188, Summer 2011.
• Also published in Urban Review, Volume 9, Issue 16, Spring 2011.

• “Outsourcing at SLC: Flik International Corporation and Labor History at Sarah Lawrence College,” The Revisionary, Issue #1, May 2005. 
  

• Review of Neva Welton and Linda Wolf’s Global Uprising: Confronting the Tyrannies of the 21st Century (New Society Publishers, 2001) in Cultural Survival Quarterly, Fall 2003.
  

• “The Alien Tort Claims Act in Danger: Implications for Global Indigenous Rights,” Cultural Survival’s Weekly Indigenous News, featured article, June 27, 2003.

 

Interviews

• "When New York's Biggest Landlords are Columbia and NYU." Interviewed by Clio Chang for New York Magazine's Curbed, December 13, 2023.
  

• Coquelin, Sonja, Joanna Kusiak, Jaime Palomera, Samuel Stein, Rae Baker, Emanuele Belotti, Aysegul Can, and Elsa Noterman (2022). "Housing Justice, Mobilization and Financialization: A Conversation from the Antipode Institute for Geographies of Justice." Radical Housing Journal, 4(2), pp. 157-169.
  

• "The Real Estate State and Housing Insecurity: An Interview with Samuel Stein." Interviewed by Max Michler for Active History, July 6, 2021.

• "The Power to Remake Our Cities: An Interview with Samuel Stein." Interviewed by Adam H for Boston DSA's Political Education Working Group Blog, October 21, 2019. 
  

• "Interview with Samuel Stein." Interviewed by Michael Nicholas for Urban Review, Spring 2019 issue.
  

• "Are Planners Partly to Blame for Gentrification?" Interviewed by Tanner Howard for CityLab, March 29, 2019.

• "Capital City: An Interview with Samuel Stein." Interviewed by Hilary Wilson for Gotham: A Blog for Scholars of New York City History, March 28, 2019.
  

• "Do Real Estate Markets Make Our Cities Less Livable?" Interviewed by Aaron Freedman for the Institute for New Economic Thinking, March 4, 2019.
  

Research and Advocacy Reports

• Mironova, Oksana, Samuel Stein, Jennifer Hinojosa, Debipriya Chatterjee, Yvonne Peña. "CityFHEPS: State of the Program at the End of 2024." Community Service Society, December 5, 2024.
  

• Thompson, Iziah, Oksana Mironova, Samuel Stein and Lonnie Portis. "The Other Housing Crisis: Poor Housing Conditions Are Not Only a NYCHA Problem—They're a Low-Income Housing Problem." Community Service Society, July 25, 2024.

• Stein, Samuel and Oksana Mironova. "New York." In Rao, Kumar (ed.), Building the Future: Grassroots Reflections on Social Housing. Housing Justice Alliance, May 22, 2024.
  

• Stein, Samuel and Oksana Mironova. "AMI in NYC: Visualizing Inequality and Unaffordability with Area Median Income." Community Service Society, May 7, 2023.
  

• Stein, Samuel, Oksana Mironova, and Iziah Thompson. No Good Cause, No Rent Pause: In the Wake of Government Inaction, Rents Keep Rising. Community Service Society, February 21, 2024.
  

•  Stein, Samuel, Oksana Mironova, and Iziah Thompson. Control Our Homes, Control Our Destinies: New Yorkers Want Affordable Housing and Resident Control. Community Service Society, February 7, 2024.
  

• Mironova, Oksana, Samuel Stein and Iziah Thompson. Right to Counsel Works: Why Won't the City and State Use It to Stop More Evictions? Community Service Society, January 2024.
  

• Mironova, Oksana and Samuel Stein. Our Fast Analysis of the 2021 New York City Housing and Vacancy Survey. October 12, 2023.

• Chatterjee, Debipriya, Samuel Stein, Jennifer Hinojosa and Oksana Mironova. To Fight Homelessness, House the People (Part 2): A Deeper Dive Into the Costs, Benefits and Savings of CityFHEPS Reform and Expansion. June 20th. 2023.
  

• Chatterjee, Debipriya, Samuel Stein, Jennifer Hinojosa and Oksana Mironova. To Fight Homelessness, House the People: Reforming the CityFHEPS Voucher Program Is the Need of the Hour. Community Service Society, May 23, 2023.
  

• Mironova, Oksana and Samuel Stein. Assembly-Line "Justice": Eviction Attempts Reach Record Highs in 2022. Community Service Society, January 26, 2023.
  

• Stein, Samuel and Oksana Mironova. Good Cause for Alarm: Rents Are Rising for Low-Income Tenants in Unregulated Apartments. Community Service Society, January 10, 2023.
  

• Bach, Victor, Oksana Mironova, and Samuel Stein. Preserving New York City's Public Housing: Future Choices. Community Service Society, December 12, 2022.
  

• Mironova, Oksana, Samuel Stein, Celeste Hornbach and Jacob Udell. Pathways to Social Housing in New York: 20 Policies to Shift from Private Profit to Public Good. Community Service Society, November 1, 2022.
  

• Glover, Delsenia, Sara Newman, Beatriz De La Torre, Brendan Cheney, Reginald T. Brown, Corinne Low, Shams DaBaron and Samuel Stein. Committee to End Homelessness by the Year 2026. Office of the Public Advocate, July 29, 2022.
  

• Mironovoa, Oksana and Samuel Stein. Blame Speculation, Not Rent Regulation: Why New York Must Enforce and Protect the 2019 Rent Laws. Community Service Society, July 14, 2022. 
  

• Stein, Samuel and Oksana Mironova. Conditions, Crowding and Cash on Hand: Key Points from Selected Initial Findings of the 2021 New York City Housing and Vacancy Survey. Community Service Society, June 14, 2022.
  

• Mironova, Oksana and Samuel Stein. Plenty of Apartments... If You've Got Plenty of Money: Key Pints from Selected Initial Findings of the 2021 New York City Housing and Vacancy Survey. Community Service Society, June 14, 2022.
  

• Stein, Samuel, Paul Williams, Oksana Mironova and Sylvia Morse. The Truth About Good Cause and Housing Supply: New York Can Build and Maintain Housing While Expanding Tenants' Rights. Community Service Society and Pratt Center for Community Development, May 9, 2022.
  

• Stein, Samuel and Debipriya Chatterjee. 421-a at 50, part 2: Unaffordable New York. Community Service Society, March 29, 2022.
  

• Mironova, Oksana, Samuel Stein and Gianpaolo Baiocchi. Racial Justice and the Right to Remain. Housing Justice for All, Community Service Society, The Legal Aid Society, NYU Urban Democracy Lab and Pratt Center for Community Development, February 28, 2022.  
  

• Stein, Samuel and Debipriya Chatterjee. 421-a at 50, part 1: Rising Cost, Diminishing Returns. Community Service Society, February 10, 2022.

• Afridi, Lena, Oksana Mironova and Samuel Stein. The Right to Remain: A Case for Full Coverage in Good Cause Eviction Protections. Pratt Center for Community Development and Community Service Society, January 7, 2022.
  

• Mironova, Oksana and Samuel Stein. Low-Income New Yorkers are an Inch Away from Eviction. Community Service Society, January 6, 2022. 

• Bach, Victor, Kate Ham and Samuel Stein. NYCHA and the Pandemic: Impacts on Public Housing Residents. Community Service Society, May 3, 2021.
  

• Assessing de Blasio's Housing Legacy: Why Hasn't "the Most Ambitious Affordable Housing Plan" Produced a More Affordable City? Community Service Society, February 2021.

• Stein, Samuel, Kate Ham and Victor Bach. Housing is Healthcare: Tenants' Struggle for Affordability Amidst Recession and Pandemic. Community Service Society, December 23, 2020.
  

• Mironova, Oksana, Samuel Stein, Celeste Hornbach and Jacob Udell. Corporate Windfalls or Social Housing Conversions? The Looming Mortgage Crisis and the Choices Facing New York. Community Service Society, November 2020. 

• Stein, Samuel and Caroline Nagy. Rising Tides, Rising Costs: Flood Insurance and New York City’s Affordability Crisis. Center for New York City Neighborhoods, September 2014. 
• Republished in Progressive Planning as a two-part series:  
• Stein, Samuel and Caroline Nagy. “Rising Tides, Rising Costs: Why There’s So Much Low-Cost Housing in Flood-Prone New York.” Progressive Planning, Number 201, Fall 2014. 
• Stein, Samuel and Caroline Nagy. “Rising Tides, Rising Costs: The Toll of Flood Insurance on Working Class New York.” Progressive Planning, Number 202, Winter 2015.
  

• Opportunities for a New New York, Curated and edited for Planners Network NYC, January, 2014.

• Tenants’ and Neighbors’ Rent Guidelines Blog, www.rentguidelines.blogspot.com, March – June 2013. 

• Beyond the Backlash: Equity and Participation in Bicycle Planning, Hunter College Urban Planning Studio, co-authored with 10 other Hunter College planning students, May 2011.  
• Also published online at Streetsblog, May 16, 2011.