Jerusalem Demsas

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                <h2><p>Jerusalem Demsas is host of the weekly podcast Good on Paper and a staff writer at The Atlantic where she is an established voice on the housing crisis and local democracy. Her writing spans issues from infrastructure, labor economics and federalism to race, gender, mobility and the politics of exclusion.</p></h2>
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            <p>Jerusalem Demsas is host of the weekly podcast&nbsp;<em>Good on Paper&nbsp;</em>and a staff writer at The Atlantic where she is an established voice on the housing crisis and local democracy. Her writing spans issues from infrastructure, labor economics and federalism to race, gender, mobility and the politics of exclusion. She was recognized for her work in 2023 by the American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) with the ASME Next Award for journalists under 30. Demsas is also a Visiting Fellow with the Center for Economy and Society at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University. Prior to The Atlantic, Demsas was a policy journalist at Vox, where she also co-hosted the popular policy podcast&nbsp;<em>The Weeds</em>. </p>
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Jerusalem Demsas is host of the weekly podcast Good on Paper and a staff writer at The Atlantic where she is an established voice on the housing crisis and local democracy. Her writing spans issues from infrastructure, labor economics and federalism to race, gender, mobility and the politics of exclusion. She was recognized for her work in 2023 by the American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) with the ASME Next Award for journalists under 30. Demsas is also a Visiting Fellow with the Center for Economy and Society at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University. Prior to The Atlantic, Demsas was a policy journalist at Vox, where she also co-hosted the popular policy podcast The Weeds.

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By Jerusalem Demsas

Host, Good on Paper, (The Atlantic)