Samuel Stein

Student Fellow

Samuel Stein is a geography PhD student at the CUNY Graduate Center and an Urban Studies instructor at Hunter College with a background in tenant organizing, labor research and policy advocacy. His work focuses on urban political economy, with an emphasis on housing, real estate and gentrification in New York City. His dissertation uncovers the complex structural linkages between unions and non-profits, the real estate industry, and the New York City planning apparatus, in order to reveal why many working class institutions have supported planning programs that accelerate gentrification. In February, 2019, Verso will publish his first book, Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State, which analyzes how the growing concentration of capital in real estate has altered the profession of planning.

Participating Years

2018–2019

Insurgent Solidarities

Given the political challenges of the present, the necessity for a deeper understanding of radical solidarity appears more pressing than ever. Yet while solidarity has been pivotal to social change since at least the Haitian Revolution, how it is articulated has never been less than problematic.