Jamaal Green
Jamaal Green is a doctoral degree candidate at Portland State University in the Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning studying economic development and equity planning. His specific interests include the intersections of land-use and economic development policy and the role that planning can play in mitigating social and political inequality.
Time for a Job Guarantee
In various economic pundit conversations on Twitter, the new target of scorn is Universal Basic Income (UBI). Supporters of UBI (at least those who...
It’s Time to Talk about Cops
I don't need to revisit the hundreds of police killings around this country over the past few years (not...
There’s No Shortage of Low Quality Housing
In two recent posts, Emily Washington at Market Urbanism (part 2 here) argues that middle class sensibilities, with regard to...
For Cities, Industrial Land Matters
In a recent blog post, Tarry Hum, a professor of urban studies at Queens College, profiled the failure of the De Blasio administration to...
The “Both/And” of the Housing Debate
Paul Krugman, the darling of progressive policymakers in the U.S., weighed in on the urban housing question recently, coming...
What the “New” Housing Advocates Miss
Today's housing supply advocates should look at the political and legal histories behind opening up the suburbs and embrace fair housing law as one tool in the fight to gut exclusionary zoning.