Every book Katherine Levine Einstein recommended on podcasts

Katherine Levine Einstein appeared on EconTalk to discuss housing politics, local regulations, and her research alongside co-authors David M. Glick and Maxwell Palmer. Throughout the interview, Einstein frequently referenced her book Neighborhood Defenders, explaining that she and her co-authors borrowed the term from historical research on school desegregation and the opponents who fought it back in the 1960s and 1970s. She acknowledged the critical portrayal of housing opponents within her book and noted that one of its primary goals is to push people to think about the distributional consequences of neighborhood-oriented planning processes. Furthermore, Einstein discussed the regulatory arguments highlighted in her work, pointed to specific case studies examining affordable housing developments, and recounted a particular example from her book detailing how a housing development was delayed for numerous reasons, including the presence of a massive old copper beech tree in the middle of the development site.