John Mangin is Senior Counsel at the NYC Department of City Planning and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Urban Planning of NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. Prior to that, he was a teaching fellow at Georgetown University Law Center and worked in affordable housing development and litigation for Fair Share Housing, an organization that grew out the Mount Laurel exclusionary housing suits in the 1970s and '80s. He is the author of “The New Exclusionary Zoning” in the Stanford Law and Policy Review and “Ethnic Enclaves and the Zoning Game” in the Yale Law and Policy Review. He was also a Yale Law Public Interest Fellow at the CUP (Center for Urban Pedagogy), where he co-authored "What Is Affordable Housing?" and "What Is Zoning?" He is a graduate of Yale Law School.