Max Holleran - Yes to the City: Millennials and the Fight for Affordable Housing

YES TO THE CITY

Yes to the City

Millennials and the Fight for Affordable Housing

Max Holleran

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Names: Holleran, Max, author.

Title: Yes to the city : millennials and the fight for affordable housing / Max Holleran.

Description: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2022] | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2021050086 (print) | LCCN 2021050087 (ebook) | ISBN 9780691200224 (hardcover ; alk. paper) | ISBN 9780691234717 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Housing. | Land use, Urban. | Generation Y. | City planning. | Housing policy. | BISAC: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban | LAW / Housing & Urban Development

Classification: LCC HD7287 .H56 2022 (print) | LCC HD7287 (ebook) | DDC 363.5dc23/eng/20211018

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1. vii

This book took shape on three continents, over five years, some of which was during a global pandemic. Despite that, I enjoyed tremendous support from former colleagues in New York and my new friends and workmates in Melbourne. Most of all, I am indebted to the housing activists who shared their time and thoughts with me.

At Princeton University Press, I would like to thank Jacqueline Delaney and Molan Goldstein. Most of all, I am so happy to have worked with my wonderful editor Meagan Levinson, who had confidence in this project from the start and was incredibly patient while all hell broke loose in 2020.

This book was built on what I learned as a PhD student at New York University, where I completed my first major project and dissertation on urbanization for tourism in the European Union. Im thankful for the guidance offered by the many amazing people who were in NYUs Sociology Department at that time, particularly Neil Brenner, Craig Calhoun, Lynne Haney, Ruth Horowitz, Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Iddo Tavory, Richard Sennett, Jeff Manza, Colin Jerolmack, David Garland, Paula England, and Nahoko Kameo. Additionally, I was honored to work with George Shulman as an undergraduate student and continue to draw on all he taught me. I was lucky to be surrounded by a cohort of fellow graduate students in New York who expanded my knowledge in other areas of sociology, strengthened my work with their critiques, and provided solidarity over shared meals, drinks, and union meetings. In particular: Anna Skarpelis, Daniel Aldana Cohen, Caitlin Petre, David Wachsmuth, Hillary Angelo, Michael Gould-Wartofsky, Liz Koslov, Ned Crowley, Max Besbris, Adaner Usmani, Abigail Weitzman, Jacob Faber, Shelly Ronen, Peter Rich, Adam Murphree, Francisco Vieyra, Naima Brown, Muriam Haleh Davis, Mike McCarthy, Eyal Press, Zalman Newfield, Sam Dinger, Brian McCabe, Alix Rule, Sara Duvisac, Ercan Sadi, Poulami Roychowdury, Harel Shapira, Sonia Prelat, Jeannie Kim, Eliza Brown, Eric Van Deventer, Michelle OBrien, Robert Wihr Taylor, Josh Frens-String, Jonah Birch, Madhavi Cherian, A. J. Bauer, Burcu Baykurt, Johnny Halushka, Jaap Verheul, David Klassen, Mnica Caudillo, James Robertson, Filip Erdeljac, Nada Matta, Ruth Braunstein, and Jeremy Cohan. Also, a shout-out to Sophie Gonick, Becky Amato, Tom Sugrue, Caitlin Zaloom, Gordon Douglas, Jess Coffey, and Siera Dissmore, who always kept me great company at the Institute for Public Knowledge and Urban Democracy Lab.

Over my years as an academic, I have been privileged to work with scholars from around the world, especially as a member of the NYLON group. In particular, I am thankful to have met and shared my thoughts with Boris Vormann, Laura Marsh, Natalia Besedovsky, Joseph Ben Prestel, Hanna Hilbrandt, David Madden, Tim Edensor, Katherine Robinson, Fran Tonkiss, Gareth Millington, Mariya Ivancheva, Sarah Knuth, Ana Aceska, David Huyssen, Dunya van Trust, Elana Resnick, Miriam Greenberg, Mona Nicoara, Tim Bunnell, Virag Molnar, James Mark, Alberto Cossu, Linda Peake, Aaron Jakes, Romit Chowdhury, Sebastin Guzmn, Janna Besamusca, Miguel Martinez, Lorenzo Zamponi, Kirsten Weld, Tom Slater, Davide Vampe, Rachel Bok, Agata Lisiak, Martin Fuller, Diana Petkova, Andreas Schfer, Tanya Stancheva, Jiaying Sim, Carlos Piocos, Jamie Gillen, Joanna Kusiak, Daniel Knight, Dace Dzenovska, Adam Kaasa, Katie Sobering, Jane M. Jacobs, Katherine Jensen, Kevin Ward, Javier Auyero, Nino Bariola, and Daiva Repekait.

In my new home in Melbourne, I was supported by the many amazing people in the School for Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne as well as the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, in particular my dear colleagues and friends Ana Carballo, Clayton Chin, Evgeny Postnikov, Lisa MacKinney, Robyn Eckersley, Peter Christoff, Peter Rush, Cameo Dalley, Brendan Gleeson, Michele Acuto, Crystal Legacy, Monica Minnegal, Andy Dawson, Tammy Kohn, Fabio Mattioli, Bela Belojevic, Melissa Johnston, Sara Meger, Erik Baekkeskov, Kate Williams, Adrian Little, Carla Winston, Michelle Carmody, Barbara Barbosa Neves, Carolyn Whitzman, David Bissell, Tim Neale, Craig Smith, Sonja Molnar, and David Giles. I was also blessed to join a talented, supportive, and incredibly ambitious group of sociologists at Melbourne: Liz Dean, Ash Barnwell, Signe Ravn, Irma Mooi-Reci, Brendan Churchill, Lyn Craig, Rennie Lee, Karen Farquharson, Nikki Moodie, Dan Woodman, Leah Ruppanner, Keith McVilly, and Belinda Hewitt

Many people saw presentations of this work but only a few dug through the early drafts and gave me very useful edits: Amanda Gilbertson, Nina Serova, Alexis Kalagas, Greg Martin, Steven Roberts, and Geoffrey Mead. They are editing heroes, unless of course there are mistakes (which are my own fault).

Through the writing of this book and my many overseas moves, I have been supported by amazing friends who have let me sleep on their couches, prepared jetlag-soothing coffee for me, and also discussed urban density in the cities they live in. My deepest gratitude to Lauren Roberts, Marisa Pereira Tully, Leah Feder, Prakash Puru, Chip Rountree, Asaf Shtull-Trauring, Muge Girisen, Seth Prins, Nicolau Puig, Cate Capsalis, Asaf Goldberg, Arielle Lawson, Laura Graber, Isabel and Philip Wohlstetter, Katherine Whitney, Alex Lopez, Javi Navarro Cano, Roy Kimmey, Damien Bright, Helen and Mark Mastache, Dan and Megan Rivoire, Brett Miller, David Snchez Timn, Isobel and Chaya Mushka Rechter, Lauren Kelly, Anika Nicolaas Ponder, Bernd Riedel, Megan Lessard, Ignacio Hinojosa, Sangita Vyas, Julianne Chandler, and Pedro Rodriguez.