Patrick Spauster

About

Patrick Spauster is a journalist who writes about cities and data. He is currently the housing and homelessness reporter for City Limits, as well as the newsrooms data reporting lead. His stories, investigations, features, reporting, and data visualizations have appeared in Bloomberg CityLab, CityLimits, and Streetsblog NYC. Spauster is trained as a journalist, urban planner, data scientist, and a researcher. He graduated as an inaugural Georgina and Charlotte Bloomberg Public Service Fellow from New York University's Wagner School of Public Service, where he won the Sterling D. Spero Prize for exceptional written short and long form work and edited the urban planning paper, the Wagner Planner. He has a research fellowship with the Furman Center at NYU where he develops web applications, data tools, and data visualizations for the web. He also co-instructs Wagner's course on data analysis, mapping, and storytelling for Urban Planners. His past experience includes newsroom experience at Bloomberg News and research with the Urban Institute and Human Rights Watch. He graduated from Davidson College where he was a leader in the service community on campus.