Who Represents the Renters?

Katherine Levine Einstein finds that renters are starkly underrepresented by a margin of over 30 percentage points — a gap that persists across a variety of institutional and demographic contexts.

Ending Homelessness in America Feels Impossible. Is It? | Top of Mind with Julie Rose – Season 2024, Episode 13

Associate Professor and IOC Faculty Affiliate Katherine Levine Einstein was featured on journalist Julie Rose’s podcast “Top of Mind,” a production of BYUradio. Joined by Cuica Montoya, senior director of homelessness programs at the Colorado Village Collaborative, Marc Eichenbaum, special assistant to the mayor for homelessness initiative in Houston, and Elizabeth Funk, founder and CEO of DignityMoves, the four guests offered a variety of perspectives on homelessness, with Einstein offering commentary on we aren’t building more housing.

Loretta Lees and Elanor Warwick: Defensible space

In Episode 26/3 of A is for Architecture, Loretta Lees and Elanor Warwick speak about their book, Defensible Space on the Move: Mobilisation in English Housing Policy and Practice, published with Wiley in 2022. We discuss a few of its themes, including the emergence of the concept in America with Oscar Newman and others, its transference to Britain and its articulation and deployment by geographers, architects and policymakers, not least Alice Coleman, in the later twentieth century.

Last Word: Mel Parry, Professor Alice Coleman, Hugh Callaghan, Cynthia Weil

Mel Parry, the SAS veteran who was part of the team that stormed the Iranian embassy in London in 1980. Professor Alice Coleman, the geographer whose modifications to modernist high rise estates won the support of Margaret Thatcher. Hugh Callaghan, the labourer who was one of six men arrested after the Birmingham pub bombings of 1974. He served 16 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. Cynthia Weil, the American songwriter behind hits like The Righteous Brothers’ “You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling”, The Animals’ “We Gotta Get Out Of This Place” and Dolly Parton’s “Here You Come Again”. Interviewees include: Interviewee: Bob Shepherd, Jo Kendall, Professor Loretta Lees, and Chris Mullin.

Bar for lesbian and non-binary communities set to open in Boston later this summer

We hear from Thais Rocha, co-founder of Boston’s LGBTQ Nightlife Events, about the new lesbian and non-binary focused bar set to open this summer in Boston. Once opened, it will be one of fewer than 30 bars in the country that caters to the lesbian community. Plus, Japonica Brown-Saracino, a professor and chair of sociology at Boston University, joins us to talk about why there’s so few bars and how local LGBTQ groups are filling the void.

One to One with Suzy Wrack: The House I Grew Up In

Football writer Suzy Wrack talks to urban geographer and professor at Boston University, Loretta Lees, about how growing up on council estates shaped their lives, and led them to studying the impact of space and design.

Katherine Levine Einstein on Neighborhood Defenders

Why is affordable housing in such short supply? Author and political scientist Katherine Levine Einstein of Boston University talks about her book Neighborhood Defenders with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Einstein focuses on the ability of local residents to use the zoning and permit process to prevent development of housing or to reduce the amount of housing that can be built.