Jonathan Tarleton is a writer, urban planner, and oral historian. He previously served as the chief researcher for Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas, as editor in chief of the online magazine Urban Omnibus, and as a real estate project manager with Urban Edge, a Boston-based community development corporation. Currently, he teaches writing and argumentation at MICA (Maryland Institute College of Art) in Baltimore, Maryland and serves as a senior advisor at the Bloomberg Center for Public Innovation at Johns Hopkins. He is also sits on the board of Shelterforce, an online publication that reports on issues related to affordable housing. In addition to dozens of essays on housing issues, he recently published his first book: Homes for Living: The Fight for Social Housing and a New American Commons.

Recorded 2/25/25.