“[NY] must focus on breaking its cycle of inaction on providing affordable, high-quality housing for working-class New Yorkers. Mitchell Lama 2.0, if the lessons of 1.0 are properly heeded, is a start.” —Jonathan Tarleton in Jacobin jacobin.com/2024/03/new-yo…

And Jonathan Tarleton’s book on the topic, Homes for Living: The Fight for Social Housing and a New American Commons, will be out from Beacon Press in 2025!

“The most crucial lesson is to ensure that housing built under these proposals is kept affordable to low- and middle-income people in perpetuity.” Great piece from Jonathan Tarleton on building the promise of true #socialhousing into policy & governance. jacobin.com/2024/03/new-yo…

Impressed by the organizing of Cooperators United for Mitchell-Lama on another front against the privatization of social housing in NY. Article 2 to 11 = Mitchell-Lama Armageddon!

Here's Lander talking about the mechanics of scaling up Mitchell-Lama-type housing in a recent interview. nyeditorialboard.substack.com/p/brad-lander-… And here's a Vital City essay from Jonathan Tarleton on the past and future of such housing. vitalcitynyc.org/articles/when-…

So you’ve read this interview with Timothée Chalamet and want to learn more about the history of Mitchell-Lama housing? Boy do we have the book for you! HOMES FOR LIVING by Jonathan Tarleton tells the human story of housing, out from Beacon Press 2/11/25! nytimes.com/2024/12/17/rea…

A new classic of American urban and oral history.” —Heather McGhee, author of The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together (Timothée Chalamet let us know if we can get you a copy!) penguinrandomhouse.com/books/770179/h…

Yes, we need Mitchell Lama 2.0 AND we need to preserve what we already have. My book, HOMES FOR LIVING, out from Beacon Press 2/11/25, unpacks ongoing fights to preserve Mitchell Lama housing through intimate portraits of two coops’ struggles.

A lot of people are talking these days about a "Mitchell-Lama 2.0." Want to learn more about Mitchell-Lama? Read this excerpt from Jonathan Tarleton's new book "Homes for Living," on the battle over the privatization of Southbridge Towers in the 2010s: hellgatenyc.com/excerpt-homes-…

A new book by Jonathan Tarleton retraces the decisions of two Mitchell-Lama housing co-ops as residents wrestled with the question of whether to privatize. Things got tense with death threats, red-baiting, and rifts between neighbors. curbed.com/article/mitche…

A new book by Jonathan Tarleton is a gripping play-by-play of two Mitchell-Lama developments faced what an impossible decision: stay public or sell out? In Curbed today, we chatted about privatization, social housing, and the crisis we have found ourselves in: curbed.com/article/mitche…

YES! Magazine ran a great excerpt from Beacon Press author Jonathan Tarleton's latest book HOMES FOR LIVING. On sale now! yesmagazine.org/economy/2025/0…

“Rigor doesn’t equal perfection.” Jonathan Tarleton on research (and why sometimes, it’s okay not to know). lithub.com/jonathan-tarle…

Earlier today The New Yorker posted an extensive piece on housing, and it's so great to see that Beacon Press author Jonathan Tarleton's HOMES FOR LIVING is referenced and quoted throughout! newyorker.com/magazine/2025/…

The best thing I saw this week: author Jonathan Tarleton Jonathan Tarleton discussing his excellent book and why more social housing is 🔑 to solving our affordability crisis! Via Pat Kiernan ny1.com/nyc/all-boroug…

Great interview on NY1 with Jonathan Tarleton ! Author explores NYC’s housing crisis through residents’ stories ny1.com/nyc/all-boroug…

The Urbanist: it’s all about #NewYork this week. Jonathan Tarleton talks about his new book, ‘Homes for Living’, which explores the privatisation of two housing co-ops. Then: we talk traffic mapping with @TomToma and #CityofYes with Sarah Holder monocle.com/radio/shows/th…

Durham! Come by Letters on April 22 to learn more about my friend Jonathan Tarleton’s new book, a (smart, engrossing!) case study of two co-op housing programs weighing the decision to privatize. I’m his layman interviewer, should be fun!