Alyssa Katz is a member of the editorial board of the New York Daily News. She is the author of Our Lot: How Real Estate Came to Own Us (Bloomsbury, 2009), about the making of the mortgage crisis. Alyssa was previously editor of The New York World, an investigative newsroom embedded at Columbia Journalism School, and of City Limits, an award-winning magazine investigating the institutions and policies at work in New York City’s neighborhoods. Before covering urban policy, politics and housing, Alyssa was a cultural critic for The Village Voice, The Nation, and Spin. She received her BA from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and was a Revson Fellow at Columbia University. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and daughter.