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Peter Salins is a senior fellow of the Manhattan Institute’s Center for State and Local Leadership, former 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 books include Assimilation, American Style (Basic Books, 1996), Scarcity by Design: The Legacy of New York City’s Housing Policies (Harvard University Press, 1992) with Gerard Mildner, The Ecology of Housing Destruction: Economic Effects of Public Intervention in the Housing Market (New York University Press, 1980), 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 Commentary, Reason, Journal of the American Institute of Planners, The New York Times, The Public Interest, The New Republic, and City Journal. His most recent City Journal article is “Liberating Development” (July 2009). He is a past editor of City Journal and 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 has also provided testimony to the U.S. President’s Commission on Housing and advised the White House domestic policy staff on urban policy. Salins has made numerous television and radio appearances including on The Charlie Rose Show and All Things Considered.
Salins earned bachelor of architecture, master of planning and Ph.D. in metropolitan studies degrees from Syracuse University.
[SORT BY CATEGORY] [SORT BY PUBLICATION TYPE]
Barriers to Building
Rent Control’s Last Gasp City Journal, Winter 1997
Business and Economy
A Pain-Free Fix To Boost City Growth New York Post, 08-10-09Capital Gains City Journal, Autumn 2011
Economic Development
The Twilight of Rent Control? City Journal, Winter 1995A Pain-Free Fix To Boost City Growth New York Post, 08-10-09
Education
How the Universities Got This Way Minding the Campus, 02-02-10Capital Gains City Journal, Autumn 2011
Ethnicity
Assimilation, American Style Book, 1996
Government Reform
Steady As She Goes City Journal, Winter 1995
Graduation Rates
The Test Passes, Colleges Fail The New York Times, 11-17-08
Higher Education
The Test Passes, Colleges Fail The New York Times, 11-17-08
Housing and Redevelopment
The Twilight of Rent Control? City Journal, Winter 1995Rent Control’s Last Gasp City Journal, Winter 1997New York City's Housing Gap Civic Report, September 1996The Best Christmas Present Washington Could Give New York Civic Bulletin, December 1994New York City's Housing Gap Revisited Civic Report, February 2002The Ecology of Housing Destruction Book, February 1980Scarcity by Design: The Legacy of New York's Housing Policies Book, December 1992New York City's Housing Gap: The Road to Recovery Rethinking Development Report, June 2004There Is a Way to End The Housing Crunch New York Daily News, 02-27-02NYC's Housing Gap: Squeezing the Middle Class New York Post, 07-01-04A Pain-Free Fix To Boost City Growth New York Post, 08-10-09
Immigration
Use Social Security to Seal the Border The New York Times, 07-03-07The 'Guest Worker' Folly Wall Street Journal, 06-06-07Assimilation Nation The New York Times, 05-11-06Capital Gains City Journal, Autumn 2011
Legal Issues
Rent Control’s Last Gasp City Journal, Winter 1997Government by Decree: The High Cost of Letting Judges Make Policy Civil Justice Memo/Forum, November 1994Simple Rules for a Complex Society City Journal, Winter 1993Scarcity by Design: New York’s Failed Housing Policies At Issue, Winter 1993
New York State
Rent Control’s Last Gasp City Journal, Winter 1997
NYC Economy
Dark Tax Cloud Still Looms Over N.Y.C. New York Daily News, 02-01-07A Pain-Free Fix To Boost City Growth New York Post, 08-10-09
NYC Schools
The Test Passes, Colleges Fail The New York Times, 11-17-08
Regulation
Rent Control’s Last Gasp City Journal, Winter 1997The Best Christmas Present Washington Could Give New York Civic Bulletin, December 1994
Regulation through Litigation
Government by Decree: The High Cost of Letting Judges Make Policy Civil Justice Memo/Forum, November 1994
School Curriculum and Programs
Simple Rules for a Complex Society City Journal, Winter 1993Scarcity by Design: New York’s Failed Housing Policies At Issue, Winter 1993Capital Gains City Journal, Autumn 2011
Taxes and Budget
New Jersey Income Tax Cut Led to Savings, Not Rise in Local Taxes Civic Report, March 1996
Urban Issues
New York Unbound: The City and the Politics of the Future Book, November 1988Scarcity by Design: The Legacy of New York's Housing Policies Book, December 1992
Welfare
Pound Foolish City Journal, Spring 1995
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