Amanda Huron will be in conversation with author Jonathan Tarleton this Friday, Feb. 28, at 7:00 PM, at Politics & Prose at the Wharf, about his new book, Homes for Living: the Fight for Social Housing and the New American Commons, which is all about limited-equity housing co-ops in NYC. Details here. From the P&P website:

In Homes for Living, urban planner and oral historian Jonathan Tarleton introduces readers to 2 social housing co-ops in Brooklyn and Manhattan. Longtime residents of St. James Towers and Southbridge Towers lock horns over whether to maintain the rules that have kept their homes affordable for decades or to cash out at great personal profit, thereby denying future generations the same opportunity to build thriving communities rooted in mutual care.

With a deft hand for mapping personal histories atop the greater housing crisis, Tarleton explores housing as a public good, movements for tenant rights and Indigenous sovereignty, and questions of race and class to lay bare competing visions of what ownership means, what homes are for, and what neighbors owe each other.

Jonathan Tarleton is a writer, an urban planner, and an oral historian. He previously served as the chief researcher on Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas and as the editor in chief of the online magazine Urban Omnibus. His essays have appeared in Orion, Jacobin, Hell Gate, Dirt, and beyond .

Amanda Huron‘s research interests are in D.C. history, urban geography, and housing justice. Her first book, Carving out the Commons: Tenant Organizing and Housing Cooperatives in Washington, D.C., is out now from the University of Minnesota Press. Among many other things, she has played music in punk and experimental bands since 1991.