Join the IPK on Thursday, May 1st (5:30-7:00 PM) for an event with @jonathantarleton.bsky.social. He will discuss his book Homes for Living: The Fight for Social Housing and a New American Commons, with @professorsophie.bsky.social and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro. ipk.nyu.edu/events/book-...

No doubts about it. HOMES FOR LIVING solidly comes down on the side that housing is a universal right. You’ll also see that Tarleton argues that capitalism, aka the free market, is incapable of insuring that everyone has basic shelter. #HousingCrisis

Great interview on NY1 with @jonathantarleton.bsky.social ! ny1.com/nyc/all-boro...

At the end of the day, @jonathantarleton.bsky.social says even pro-privatization homeowners are victims missing out on affordable housing. The American Dream narrative convinced them that they are not true homeowners. @newyorker.com

“Residents who strongly believed in preserving social housing as a public good would often stay away from making arguments that had any moral or ethical dimension because they would quickly be branded as ideological by their peers.” — @jonathantarleton.bsky.social

@jonathantarleton.bsky.social loves books about housing, but they are too often about units or buildings rather than the dynamics of the people who live in them. He brings the people to fore in his own book, HOMES FOR LIVING. #AffordableHousing

Residents who opt for privatization, like those who lived in the Mitchell-Lama program, fall under the spell of something other than money. As @jonathantarleton.bsky.social explains in HOMES FOR LIVING, ownership comes with a vision of boundless possibility.

“Rigor doesn’t equal perfection, so turn every page—or don’t. Get used to missing something.” — @jonathantarleton.bsky.social #WritersProcess @literaryhub.bsky.social

People intent on privatizing housing co-ops often believe that ownership is only real when you can profit from what you own. This is a common notion felt in the US. @jonathantarleton.bsky.social says that’s not the only option. #AffordableHousing

How people relate to their homes is a key ingredient to understanding how to make sure #AffordableHousing is preserved for the next generation. @jonathantarleton.bsky.social

It’s always fascinating to learn what makes the page and what doesn’t. @jonathantarleton.bsky.social gives us a #BehindTheScenes look at writing his book HOMES FOR LIVING. @literaryhub.bsky.social

urbanomnibus.net/2025/03/home... New feature release! “Home Valuation” @city.bsky.social and @jonathantarleton.bsky.social discuss new stories from Mitchell-Lama co-ops and the LA Tenants Union narrate the housing crisis as a struggle for control, and over the true meaning of a home.

If you lived in an #AffordableHousing co-op like the Mitchell-Lama in NYC, would you take the opportunity to “go private” and sell your home at market rate? @jonathantarleton.bsky.social

US homes are at the center of a struggle between ideologies of ownership and self-sufficiency and visions of collective stewardship of a common resource. How can we keep housing a public good and a human right? @jonathantarleton.bsky.social @city.bsky.social

The way @jonathantarleton.bsky.social sees the future of US housing, decoupling homes from profit is the path toward great investment in our common wellbeing. #HomesForLiving @annehelen.bsky.social buff.ly/Upwl6xp

“We do not have to be creating things from scratch to institute social housing today. What we need to do is fund and maintain them. It’s not impossible to do this in America.” — @jonathantarleton.bsky.social #AffordableHousing buff.ly/4k7wrcZ

Achieving perfection in writing through rigor is ideal. But it’s not always useful to approach a writing project with the baggage of perfectionism. @jonathantarleton.bsky.social @literaryhub.bsky.social

I took a quick ride on the Northeast Regional into Boston this morning to attend a discussion on a new book by @jonathantarleton.bsky.social on social housing. Great to be in community with so many folks interested in models of #housing decommodification!

Earlier today @newyorker.com posted an extensive piece on housing, and it's so great to see that @beaconpress.bsky.social author @jonathantarleton.bsky.social's HOMES FOR LIVING is referenced and quoted throughout! www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

As the housing crisis deepens, more people are looking for solutions and finding social-housing models that flourish. That’s why the Mitchell-Lama co-ops in NYC are a big deal. #AffordableHousing @jonathantarleton.bsky.social buff.ly/4k7wrcZ

“Rigor doesn’t equal perfection.” @jonathantarleton.bsky.social on research (and why sometimes, it’s okay not to know).

"Rigor doesn’t equal perfection, so turn every page—or don’t. Get used to missing something." @beaconpress.bsky.social author @jonathantarleton.bsky.social talks about his writing process for HOMES FOR LIVING & limits of research in this @literaryhub.bsky.social piece. lithub.com/jonathan-tar...

Commodification/privatization is often *intended* as a way to allow people to retire “comfortably” but results in a building with accumulated maintenance that forces long-time residents to flee. @jonathantarleton.bsky.social gets into it with @annehelen.bsky.social.

A safe, stable, affordable home is a gift, just as land and life are. As @jonathantarleton.bsky.social emphasizes in HOMES FOR LIVING, residents’ fulfillment of their responsibility to steward that gift is what makes their ownership real. #AffordableHousing

Some words on the social dividends of congestion pricing, a Q&A with @jonathantarleton.bsky.social on his new book, a tribute to Donald Shoup, and lots o' bollards, in the latest edition of Streetbeat. (Plus a new voiceover! Open to any/all feedback.) streetbeat.substack.com/p/streetbeat...

Homes don’t have to be profit centers. What happens when we stop treating them that way? We get co-ops, which @jonathantarleton.bsky.social writes about in HOMES FOR LIVING. @annehelen.bsky.social

Remember when Timothée Chalamet gave a shout-out to Manhattan Plaza on Theo Von’s podcast? @jonathantarleton.bsky.social gets at the heart of the privatizing debate surrounding the affordable-housing program in HOMES FOR LIVING.

HOMES FOR LIVING author @jonathantarleton.bsky.social was recently interviewed for @annehelen.bsky.social's Culture Study substack and already it's generated great discussion. @beaconpress.bsky.social annehelen.substack.com/p/homes-for-...

Structuring housing as a limited-equity co-op is a defense of home. It’s what the Mitchell-Lama program did to shelter middle-income folks—different from the exclusive suburbs supercharged by government-backed mortgages. @jonathantarleton.bsky.social

@jonathantarleton.bsky.social @nymag.com www.curbed.com/article/mitc...

Homes For Living: The Fight For Social Housing and A New American Commons by @jonathantarleton.bsky.social is an excellent read for anyone who wants to know more about New York State's deeply affordable Mitchell-Lama cooperative program and the serious threats that face this unique housing option.

This Saturday at 2pm! “Around the country, residents are rising up & fighting for social housing... Jonathan Tarleton deepens our understanding of what that struggle entails: what it takes to win, & how to defend against the pull of privatization.” -Samuel Stein

YES! Magazine ran a great excerpt from @beaconpress.bsky.social author @jonathantarleton.bsky.social's latest book HOMES FOR LIVING. On sale now! www.yesmagazine.org/economy/2025...

2 NYC housing co-ops debated whether to privatize. Only one chose profit over public good. Guess which one. @jonathantarleton.bsky.social

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 @jonathantarleton.bsky.social's new book "Homes for Living," on the battle over the privatization of Southbridge Towers in the 2010s: hellgatenyc.com/excerpt-home...

Happy #BookBDay, @jonathantarleton.bsky.social! 🏘️ HOMES FOR LIVING, a tale of 2 NYC affordable housing co-ops’ struggle over privatization, public goods & the future of US housing, is “a new classic of American urban & oral history.”—Heather McGhee, author of THE SUM OF US https://buff.ly/4gAzS9a

The event calendar at People's Book this month is packed!! We're so honored to host these amazing authors - rsvp to events at the link in bio. Hope to see ya there!

Tick-tock! Tick-tock! T minus 1 month until HOMES FOR LIVING, @jonathantarleton.bsky.social’s “captivating debut study,” is out in the world!

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HOMES FOR LIVING by @jonathantarleton.bsky.social is “a damning vision of an America with once great social ideals slipping into an era of narrow self-interest,” and it’s coming out next month! Watch this space on February 11! 👀