Join us at Housing Works Bookstore for an exciting in-person book event to celebrate the release of Atlantic staff writer, Jerusalem Demsas's debut: "On The Housing Crisis: Land, Development, Democracy." The event will include a conversation between Jerusalem and Annemarie Gray, Executive Director of Open New York, followed by a book signing.

Jerusalem Demsas is a staff writer at The Atlantic where she is an established voice on the housing crisis and local democracy. Her writing spans issues from infrastructure, labor economics, and federalism to race, gender, mobility and the politics of exclusion. She also hosts the new Atlantic podcast "Good on Paper." Jerusalem was recognized for her work in 2023 by the American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) with the ASME Next Award for journalists under 30. Demsas is also a Visiting Fellow with the Center for Economy and Society at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University. Prior to writing at The Atlantic, Demsas was a policy journalist at Vox where she also co-hosted the popular policy podcast The Weeds. She is the author of On the Housing Crisis: Land, Development, Democracy, published on September 3, 2024.

Annemarie Gray is the Executive Director of Open New York, New York's statewide grassroots pro-housing organization. Over the last two years, she has overseen the rapid growth of Open New York's work both within NYC and across the entire state. Prior to this role, she spent three years as a Senior Policy Advisor in NYC City Hall where she oversaw land use and housing policy, including the rezonings of SoHo/NoHo and Gowanus and the Where We Live NYC fair housing plan, across two Mayoral administrations under Deputy Mayor Vicki Been and Deputy Mayor Maria Torres-Springer. She previously worked for the NYC Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) and the Cambridge Housing Authority in Cambridge, MA.