Book Talk | Jonathan Tarleton | Homes for Living: The Fight for Social Housing and a New American Commons

Join the Institute for Public Knowledge on Thursday, May 1st (5:30-7:00 PM) for an event with Jonathan Tarleton. He will discuss his book Homes for Living: The Fight for Social Housing and a New American Commons, with Sophie Gonick and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro.

Jonathan Tarleton is a writer, urban planner, and oral historian. He previously served as the chief researcher on Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas and as the editor in chief of the online magazine Urban Omnibus. His essays have appeared in Orion, Jacobin, Hell Gate, Dirt, and beyond.

Sophie Gonick is an urbanist and associate professor in the Department of Social & Cultural Analysis at NYU. She studies housing, immigration, urban social movements, and radical electoral politics. Her first book, Dispossession and Dissent: Immigrants and the Struggle for Housing in Madrid, explores the role of housing markets and their failures in shaping immigrant urban life and its modes of inclusion and contestation. She works extensively with grassroots collectives in Spain and the United States, including the Platform for People Affected by Mortgages (PAH-Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca) and Cooperation Jackson in Mississippi. Her new research examines rising housing unaffordability and immigration against histories of (dis)investment and discrimination within the urban United States.

Joshua Jelly-Schapiro is a geographer and writer whose books include Names of New York, Island People: The Caribbean and the World, and, with Rebecca Solnit, Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas. His work appears regularly in The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and The New York Times, among many other publications. Jelly-Schapiro teaches in the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at NYU, and has since 2022 directed the popular Author Talks series at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn.