Peter Salins is a Senior Fellow of the Manhattan Institute’s Center for Civic Innovation, Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs of the State University of New York, a fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners, a Director of the Citizens Housing and Planning Council of New York, and a trustee of the Lavanburg Foundation.

His most recent book is Assimilation, American Style (Basic Books, 1996). He also authored Scarcity by Design: The Legacy of New York City’s Housing Policies (Harvard University Press, 1992) with Gerard Mildner and The Ecology of Housing Destruction: Economic Effects of Public Intervention in the Housing Market (New York University Press, 1980). He edited New York Unbound: The City and Politics of the Future (Basil Blackwell, 1988) and Housing America’s Poor (University of North Carolina Press, 1987).

Salins has published articles in a wide variety of newspapers, periodicals and scholarly journals, including the Journal of the American Institute of Planners, New York Times, The Public Interest, The New Republic, and City Journal. His features in City Journal include “Simple Rules for a Complex Society: Redesigning New York’s Zoning” (Winter 1993), “Correcting New York’s Housing Mistakes” (Spring 1992), and “Does Rent Control Help the Poor” (Winter 1991). He is a past Editor of the Journal of the American Planning Association.

Among his other professional activities, Salins has served on Mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s Advisory Commission on the Health and Hospitals Corporation and prepared the Mayor’s transition committee report on the City Planning Commission. He provided testimony to the President’s Commission on Housing in 1981 and was a member of the advisory panel to the White House Domestic Policy Staff on Urban Policy in 1977. Salins has made television appearances on a number of shows including “The Charlie Rose Show,”“Currents,” “Cityscope,” “Midday Live,” and “Eye-on-New York.”

Salins earned his B. Arch. and Ph.D. in regional planning from Syracuse University.

Articles/Op-eds

• A Pain-Free Fix To Boost City Growth, New York Post, 08-10-09
• The Test Passes, Colleges Fail, The New York Times, 11-17-08
• Use Social Security to Seal the Border, The New York Times, 07-03-07
• The 'Guest Worker' Folly, Wall Street Journal, 06-06-07
• Dark Tax Cloud Still Looms Over N.Y.C., New York Daily News, 02-01-07
• Assimilation Nation, The New York Times, 05-11-06
• NYC's Housing Gap: Squeezing the Middle Class, New York Post, 07-01-04
• There Is a Way to End The Housing Crunch, New York Daily News, 02-27-02

Books

• Assimilation, American Style (Basic Books, 1996)
• Scarcity by Design: The Legacy of New York's Housing Policies (Harvard University Press, December 1992)
• New York Unbound: The City and the Politics of the Future (Basil Blackwell, November 1988)
• The Ecology of Housing Destruction (NYU Press, February 1980)

City Journal articles

• Liberating Development, 10 July 2009
• Rent Control’s Last Gasp, Winter 1997
• Pound Foolish, Spring 1995
• The Twilight of Rent Control?, Winter 1995
• Steady As She Goes, Winter 1995
• The Regulation That Wasn't, Autumn 1994
• Back to the Boroughs: Reinventing New York's Governments, Spring 1993
• Simple Rules for a Complex Society, Winter 1993
• Scarcity by Design: New York’s Failed Housing Policies, Winter 1993
• Correcting New York's Housing Mistakes, Spring 1992
• Can Neighborhoods Save the City?, Spring 1991
• Does Rent Control Help the Poor?, Winter 1991
• Is New York Going Down the Tubes?, Autumn 1990

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