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LAI New York member Howard Husock will discuss his new book, “The Projects: A New History of Public Housing”.
Chapter: New York
Date: Wednesday, October 15, 2025
Time: 8:00 am - 9:30 am October 15, 2025. New York (GMT-5)
Location: Lowenstein Hall at Fordham University - Lincoln Center Campus, 113 West 60th Street, New York, New York 10023
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This event is open to All LAI members globally and non-members.
Free for members & guests!
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9:00 pm, Tuesday, October 14, 2025
Book Talk and Interview with Speaker Howard Husock and Interviewer Benjamin Schneider.
Howard Husock is a senior fellow in Domestic Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he focuses on municipal government, urban housing policy, civil society, and philanthropy. Before joining AEI, Mr. Husock was Vice President for Research and Publications at the Manhattan Institute. Mr. Husock has been widely published in policy journals and the popular press, including in The New York Times and The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, The Hill, New York Post, New York Daily News, The Boston Globe, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, City Journal, Forbes.com, The Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, National Affairs, Reason, The New Republic, Washington Examiner, and The Wilson Quarterly.
His previous books include “The Poor Side of Town: And Why We Need It” (Encounter Books, 2021); “Who Killed Civil Society? The Rise of Big Government and Decline of Bourgeois Norms” (Encounter Books, 2019), “Philanthropy Under Fire” (Encounter Broadsides, 2013), and “America’s Trillion-Dollar Housing Mistake: The Failure of American Housing Policy” (Ivan R. Dee, 2003).
Benjamin Schneider is a freelance journalist covering all things urbanism. His work has appeared in Bloomberg CityLab, MIT Technology Review, Slate, The Nation, The Los Angeles Times, and many other publications. He also writes a Substack newsletter called, “The Urban Condition.” Born and raised in San Francisco, Schneider has lived in Los Angeles, Manhattan, and Washington, D.C. He currently lives in Brooklyn with his fiancée.
In his forthcoming book (Oct. 2025), “The Unfinished Metropolis,” Schneider argues that we regain the lost art of city building. Schneider explores common urban designs that shape our lives and color our cultural imagination: office parks, apartments, single family homes, and transit systems. He explains how these forms came to be, why they no longer function as promised, and introduces readers to the advocates and professionals around the country who are working on transformative new solutions. Learning from past mistakes, we can remake our cities and create better lives for ourselves and future generations.