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Edwin Eisendrath Keeps Choosing the Difficult Room
Across four decades, one Chicagoan has moved from classrooms to council chambers, public housing, patents, newspapers and radio. The job titles change. The recurring assignment is to enter a complicated institution and make it useful again.
Howard Husock
Howard Husock is a senior fellow in Domestic Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, where he studies housing, municipal government, civil society, and philanthropy. A former Emmy-winning WGBH documentary filmmaker who later taught case studies at Harvard's Kennedy School and ran research at the Manhattan Institute, he has spent four decades arguing that American housing policy keeps making the same trillion-dollar mistake. His 2025 book The Projects rereads the history of public housing as a story of demolished communities, not just demolished buildings.