SELECTED WRITING

JOURNALISM

Wired – Louisiana Hands Meta a Tax Break and Power For Its Biggest Data Center – September 2025

Dwell – The Rise of Co-Buying Has Queer Roots – July 2025

Shelterforce – What Zohran Mamdani’s Primary Win Means for the Tenant Movement – July 2025

404 Media – “A Black Hole of Energy Use”: Meta’s Massive AI Data Center – June 2025

Next City – A Sacramento Homeless Encampment Won a Historic Lease from the City. Then It All Fell Apart. – Feb 2025

New York Times – Four Decades to Build 70,000 Affordable Homes? Count That as a Success. – Jul 2024

Next City – Can São Paulo turn its Seized Buildings into Public Housing? – Apr 2024

Vice – Life in a ‘Death Trap’ – How Tenants Rose Up Against a Federally Funded Mega-Landlord – Feb 2024

Vice – How Landlord Tech is Squeezing Renters – Oct 2023

Vice – Tenants Formed a Union to Fight The ‘Google of Student Housing’ Trying to Evict Them – Jun 2023

Vice – Houseless People Say LA’s ‘Home Run’ Encampment-Clearing Program is a Mess – Mar 2023

Next City – In Portland’s Self-Governed Dignity Village, The Unhoused Make Their Own Rules – Nov 2022

Dwell – New York City is Failing Tenants. So They’re Getting Organized – Nov 2022

Prism – As The Housing Crisis Worsens, Cities Experiment With Eviction Prevention Strategies – August 2022

Bolts – North Carolina Drivers Still Face “Debt Traps” Despite Some Local Reforms – May 2022

Prism – How Unsafe Housing Conditions Led to Two Fatal Fires In A Week – January 2022

City Limits – Maya Wiley Pledges To Transform Policing. But Her Work In NYPD Oversight Left Some Disappointed. – Jun 2021

The Guardian – How US Cities’ Police Reform Attempts Led To Pay Bumps For Officers – May 2021

City Limits – In New York, Few Resources For Solitary Confinement Survivors After Prison – Dec 2020

The Appeal – NYC Pledged To Fund Programs To Stop Domestic Violence Without The Legal System – Aug 2020

Vice – America’s Jails Are Pretending The Opioid Crisis Doesn’t Exist – Aug 2019

City Limits – What’s it Like Growing Older in the NYC Homeless Shelter System?  – June 2019

Curbed – NYC’s Rent Laws Poised For Major Reform – Nov 2018

The Margins – Where South Asian Men Process Trauma – Nov 2018

The Margins – Shaping a World Without Domestic Violence – Sep 2018

The Margins – When Convictions Follow Immigrants For Life – May 2018

Village Voice – Awaiting The Night Mayor – Nov 2017

The Verge – Inside The ACLU’s Nationwide Campaign To Curb Police Surveillance – Jun 2017

ESSAYS / BOOK REVIEWS

Hammer & Hope – What Happened to June Jordan’s Land Reform Novel? – June 2026

Vice – America Has Decided That Homeless People Aren’t People – May 2023

Dwell – The Year The Affordable Housing Fight Went Mainstream – Dec 2022

The Baffler – Robert Moses is Dead – April 2022

Slate – The Real Reason Behind The Crisis On Rikers Island – Sep 2021

The Baffler – India Walton’s Uphill Battle – Sep 2021

Pacific Standard – Can Cities Build Their Way To Housing Equity? – July 2019

The Margins – For Future People – Feb 2020