Authors / Samuel Stein
Samuel Stein is the author of Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State and the forthcoming A Right to Housing?
Analysis
Zohran Mamdani Vs. the Real Estate State
Can the mayor-elect overcome the snares being set for his affordable housing agenda?
Samuel Stein December 17, 2025
Review
The Making of Satmar Williamsburg
In a new history of the Hasidic “fortress in Brooklyn,” a community’s struggle for the right to the city is not always waged in the common interest.
Samuel Stein November 23, 2021
Roundtable
On Preventing Pandemic Displacement
We must improve the housing that helps illness spread—without displacing the people who live there.
Samuel Stein October 23, 2020
Obituary
Remembrances: Michael Sorkin, Helène Aylon, Maurice Berger
Reflections on lives lost to Covid-19.
Samuel Stein, Clare Kinberg, and Ariel Goldberg April 21, 2020
