He is the author, editor, and co-author of eight books including Public Housing Myths: Perception, Reality, and Social Policy (2015) and Public Housing That Worked: New York in the Twentieth Century (2009). He is a co-editor of the Journal of Planning History and contributes to the Gotham Gazette as an editorial writer. Bloom has been interviewed on WNYC and has been quoted in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and