Jonathan Tarleton

Writer & city planner | Senior advisor @publicinno, Chief researcher @nonstopatlas, fmr editor @urbanomnibus | Opinions are my own

[Mary Brosnahan @MaryBrosnahan]

The best thing I saw this week: author Jonathan Tarleton @jttarleton discussing his excellent book and why more social housing is 🔑 to solving our affordability crisis!
Via @patkiernan
https://t.co/H0cqR2FBG5

[Cooperators United for Mitchell-Lama @CU4MitchellLama]

Great interview on NY1 with @jttarleton !

Author explores NYC’s housing crisis through residents’ stories https://t.co/ys3iKoqQpR

[Sarah Edwards @eddy_sarah]

Durham! Come by Letters on April 22 to learn more about my friend @jttarleton’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!

[Monocle Radio @Monocle_Radio]

The Urbanist: it’s all about #NewYork this week. @jttarleton 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 @sarahsholder https://t.co/YZYyMoakBL

[Gayatri Patnaik @gpatnaik1]

Earlier today @NewYorker posted an extensive piece on housing, and it's so great to see that @BeaconPressBks author @jttarleton's HOMES FOR LIVING is referenced and quoted throughout!

https://t.co/kLqLRUnvvs

[Literary Hub @lithub]

“Rigor doesn’t equal perfection.” @jttarleton on research (and why sometimes, it’s okay not to know).
https://t.co/fRqPwajAMp

[Gayatri Patnaik @gpatnaik1]

@yesmagazine ran a great excerpt from @BeaconPressBks author @jttarleton's latest book HOMES FOR LIVING. On sale now!

https://t.co/B7ONvo1OGe

[New York Magazine @NYMag]

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. https://t.co/n8hGwB0JRu

[Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @HellGateNY]

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 @jttarleton's new book "Homes for Living," on the battle over the privatization of Southbridge Towers in the 2010s:

https://t.co/gO9EPr7yIE

[John Surico @JohnSurico]

A new book by @jttarleton 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: https://t.co/d6GwVxgTsI

[Jonathan Tarleton @jttarleton]

@GoldinAgency @RealChalamet You’re in the intro and the index @RealChalamet, so you’ll need one for your archives 😉

[Jonathan Tarleton @jttarleton]

Yes, we need Mitchell Lama 2.0 AND we need to preserve what we already have.

My book, HOMES FOR LIVING, out from @BeaconPressBks 2/11/25, unpacks ongoing fights to preserve Mitchell Lama housing through intimate portraits of two coops’ struggles.

[Brad Lander @bradlander]

.@RealChalamet has it right: We need a renewal of Mitchell-Lama housing — permanently affordable co-ops for working families (incl. artists) — to make homeownership possible for the next generation of New Yorkers.

Want a mayor who will make it happen? https://t.co/xG3YYcMhV2

[Frances Goldin Literary Agency @GoldinAgency]

So you’ve read this interview with @RealChalamet and want to learn more about the history of Mitchell-Lama housing? Boy do we have the book for you!

HOMES FOR LIVING by @jttarleton tells the human story of housing, out from @BeaconPressBks 2/11/25!

https://t.co/UIjTGqzdCW

[Frances Goldin Literary Agency @GoldinAgency]

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

(@RealChalamet let us know if we can get you a copy!)

https://t.co/hd03E30t2D

[Vital City @VitalCityNYC]

Here's Lander talking about the mechanics of scaling up Mitchell-Lama-type housing in a recent interview. https://t.co/bmMwyV1c8c

And here's a Vital City essay from @jttarleton on the past and future of such housing. https://t.co/GisAkTie8h

[Jonathan Tarleton @jttarleton]

Impressed by the organizing of @CU4MitchellLama on another front against the privatization of social housing in NY. Article 2 to 11 = Mitchell-Lama Armageddon!

[Cooperators United for Mitchell-Lama @CU4MitchellLama]

.@JustinBrannan @PiSanchezNYC @galeabrewer @CMJulieWon @CMCrystalHudson @OsseChi @CMCrystalHudson @CMShahanaHanif @NYCComptroller @LindaBRosenthal @nycpa @ANHDNYC @barikaXw @tenantneighbor @CSSNYorg @NYCCLI @housing4allNY @sssmaldo @TakerootNYC @NewEconomyNYC @DavidFBrand @nycDSA

[Alliance for Housing Justice @aforhj]

“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 @jttarleton on building the promise of true #socialhousing into policy & governance. https://t.co/sNOOzowjKv

[Jonathan Tarleton @jttarleton]

@jacobin More where this came from in my book, forthcoming from @BeaconPressBks in early 2025—Homes for Living: The Fight for Social Housing and a New American Commons.

[Jonathan Tarleton @jttarleton]

With talk, again, of a Mitchell Lama 2.0 in New York's budget negotiations, we must heed the lessons from the original to push forward the more ambitious social housing policy needed to address our housing crises. My thoughts, in @jacobin.

[Jacobin @jacobin]

The New York state legislature is calling for the revival of Mitchell-Lama, a program that built over 160,000 affordable housing units in the mid-20th century. It’s a welcome proposal — but we need bigger ambitions for social housing policy today. https://t.co/JOn4rlf0wE

[Frances Goldin Literary Agency @GoldinAgency]

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