Book Talk: Affordable Housing in New York

**Matthew Gordon Lasner is an associate professor of Urban Studies and Planning at Hunter College. His research explores the production of metropolitan space in the U.S., with a focus on the relationship between the design professions, social change, the market, and the state. He is the author of the award-winning High Life: Condo Living in the Suburban Century (Yale, 2012) and co-editor of Affordable Housing in New York: The People, Places, and Policies That Transformed a City (Princeton, 2016). His writing has appeared in numerous scholarly journals, encyclopedias, catalogs, and edited collections, including Robert Moses and the Modern City: The Transformation of New York (2007) and Making Suburbia: New Histories of Everyday America (2015). He earned his PhD at Harvard, MS at the London School of Economics, and BA at Columbia.

*Nicholas Dagen Bloom is an associate professor of Interdisciplinary Studies and Urban Administration at New York Institute of Technology. He is the author, editor, and co-author of eight books including Public Housing Myths: Perception, Reality, and Social Policy (2015) and Public Housing That Worked: New York in the Twentieth Century (2009). He is a co-editor of the Journal of Planning History and contributes to the Gotham Gazette as an editorial writer. Bloom has been interviewed on WNYC and has been quoted in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and NPR Marketplace.