Happy 100th birthday to President Carter from everyone our Center who puts on a hard hat each year to help Habitat for Humanity in its mission to build homes, communities, and hope.

Recent collective book Lieux Communs, in which I talk about chambres de bonnes, was featured on the France Inter national radio: radiofrance.fr/franceinter/po…

Join us this Tuesday, January 7, if you’re in San Francisco! Excited to discuss what California can learn from French housing at SPUR, where I had the privilege to work and learn many years ago. A special thank you to Alex Schafran Egon Terplan and Michael Lane

It was such a pleasure to talk about the shared housing challenges and opportunities of California and France yesterday. Thank you to the entire SPUR team!

Our research on the geography of rental deserts, and its links with zoning and segregation, co-authored with Whitney Airgood-Obrycki and Sophia Wedeen, is now published in the Journal of Urban Affairs. We’re grateful for the insightful feedback from reviewers.

Was at a terrific YIMBYtown panel about the type of data-based research that practitioners & planners really need right now. This got me thinking: if you all could ask for one dataset or insight that’s not available yet, what would it be?

For the first iteration of the course "At Home and Abroad: Housing in Comparative Perspective", students surpassed themselves as we looked into lessons from elsewhere to fix New York City’s housing crisis--in partnership with Urban Design Forum ▶️ gsd.harvard.edu/publication/at…

spotted 👀🔎: the book Pour en Finir avec le Grand Paris I co-wrote and published in September 2024, about rethinking Paris from its margins, on display at the Frances Loeb Library this summer Harvard GSD