Jonathan Tarleton - Home for Living

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A tale of 2 NYC affordable housing co-ops’ struggle over privatization, public goods, and the future of American housing

<h3>Join us for an evening with Jonathan Tarleton, as he discusses his book, Homes for Living, with Sharon Cornelissen. Get the story of condos, coops, and how to pay it forward, from the NYC, the center of American housing experiments.</h3><h3> </h3><h3>This in-person event will be held at Solid State Books. Don't miss out!</h3><h3> </h3><h3>Tickets with AND without a book are available.</h3>

The American Dream of homeownership is becoming an American Delusion. As renters seek an escape from record-breaking rent hikes, first-time buyers find that skyrocketing interest rates and historically low inventory leave them with scant options for an affordable place to live. With home valued more than ever as a commodity, even social housing programs meant to insulate families from cut-throat markets are under threat—sometimes by residents themselves. 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.

Sharon Cornelissen is a sociologist and national housing expert. She is the director of housing at the Consumer Federation of America and previously worked at the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies. Based on three years while she lived and owned a $7,000 house in Detroit, she has a book forthcoming called “The Last House on the Block: Black Homeowners, White Homesteaders, and Failed Gentrification in Detroit.”

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