Sam Stein is a housing policy analyst and advocate in New York City; his book Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State reveals the horrifying machinations of real estate developers and the neoliberal state, who build massive luxury towers for billionaires while the city\u2019s middle and working class citizens deal with skyrocketing rents, housing shortages, and rampant homelessness. How does this happen? And how do we fight back?\xa0
Here's more on the artist who snuck into 111 W 57th St and took these amazing photos: newyorker.com/magazine/2021/03/08/andi-schmieds-billionaire-espionage-art-project
And don\u2019t miss Sam\u2019s incredible piece in The Baffler on Manhattan \u201cskinny\u201d luxury towers: https://thebaffler.com/outbursts/faulty-towers-stein
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