On the Housing Crisis: Book Launch with Jerusalem Demsas

Join us at the Niskanen Center for an exciting in-person book event to celebrate the release of Jerusalem Demsas's debut: "On The Housing Crisis: Land, Development, Democracy." The event will include light hors d'oeuvres and refreshments, a conversation between Jerusalem , Diana Lind, and Steve Teles, followed by a book signing. This event is co-sponsored by the Niskanen Center, Center for Economy and Society at the JHU SNF Agora Insitute, and The Atlantic. Registration is required to gain entrance to the event.

About the author:
Jerusalem Demsas is a staff writer at The Atlantic where she is an established voice on the housing crisis and local democracy. Her writing spans issues from infrastructure, labor economics, and federalism to race, gender, mobility and the politics of exclusion. She also hosts the new Atlantic podcast "Good on Paper." Jerusalem was recognized for her work in 2023 by the American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) with the ASME Next Award for journalists under 30. Demsas is also a Visiting Fellow with the Center for Economy and Society at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University. Prior to writing at The Atlantic, Demsas was a policy journalist at Vox where she also co-hosted the popular policy podcast The Weeds. She is the author of On the Housing Crisis: Land, Development, Democracy, published on September 3, 2024.

About the moderators:

Steven Teles is Professor of Political Science at the Johns Hopkins University, and Senior Fellow at the Niskanen Center. He is the author of Never Trump: The Revolt of the Conservative Elites (with Rob Saldin, Oxford, 2020); The Captured Economy: How The Powerful Enrich Themselves, Slow Down Growth and Increase Inequality (with Brink Lindsey, Oxford 2017); Pr*son Break: Why Conservatives Turned Against Mass Incarceration (with David Dagan, Oxford 2016), The Rise of the Conservative Legal Movement: The Battle for Control of the Law (Princeton, 2008) and Whose Welfare: AFDC and Elite Politics (Kansas, 1996). He is also editor of Conservatism and American Political Development (with Brian Glenn, Oxford, 2009) and Ethnicity, Social Mobility and Public Policy: Comparing the US and UK (with Glenn Loury and Tariq Modood, Cambridge, 2005). He has published widely in popular outlets, from Democracy Journal, The Nation, and The American Prospect, to National Affairs, The Public Interest, and National Review.

Diana Lind is a writer, urban policy specialist, and serving as a visiting fellow at the Center for Economy and Society at the JHU SNF Agora Institute. She writes the popular Substack about cities, The New Urban Order. Her most recent book is Brave New Home: Our Future in Smarter, Simpler, Happier Housing (2020). As editor in chief and executive director of Next City, and in roles at Architectural Record, New Cities Foundation, Van Alen Institute, and Penn Institute for Urban Research, Diana has become known as an expert on urban policy, design, and cities writ large. Diana has contributed op-eds and articles to many publications including, The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Globe & Mail, The Hill, and others. She has written extensively for Architectural Record, Next City, and The Philadelphia Citizen. She is also the author of Brooklyn Modern: Architecture, Interiors & Design (2008).

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