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.
