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The latest episode of Housing After Dark out now featuring Ruby B. of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative on philanthropy's role in fighting our housing crisis. Philanthropy isn't going to solve all our problems but it is absolutely critical to push us forward for two big reasons. First, philanthropy has the role to convene housers across entrenched silos and sectors, whether that be advocates, academia, practitioners, developers, the banks or more. Second, philanthropy can provide the R&D capital necessary to help institutions, like banks or government, know the difference between the real and perceived risk of investments. Tune in to hear Ruby speak powerfully about the risk embracing power of philanthropy. This is one of the few sectors where failure is a good sign. https://bit.ly/3Z3E64f

The latest episode of Housing After Dark out now, featuring Paul Fordham of Homeward Bound of Marin. Housers need to see the full truth of the housing space, which includes bridging the homelessness / housing divide. Paul speaks powerfully and compellingly about his journey to homeless services, what supportive housing really means, and how to meet those experiencing homelessness where they’re at. This may be our first foray into homelessness and questions for the unhoused, but this certainly won’t be our last. https://bit.ly/4dwFws9

Catch the latest episode of Housing After Dark focused on homeownership. We are joined by Nikki A. Beasley, Executive Director of Neighborhood Housing Services of Richmond,Inc., who is often the only person talking about homeownership in housing spaces where homeownership may not be on the agenda. Beasley isn't just arguing that we need to push for homeownership, Beasley is advocating to give people the information and the resources they need to be able to make real choices. We're starting to see homeownership make the agenda more and more, certainly due in part to Beasley's relentless advocacy. Tune in to listen to her speak powerfully and convincingly about why we need to keep pushing to fix our broken homeownership system. https://bit.ly/46AokPU

We're back after a short summer hiatus with a really interesting episode on SB4 implementation and bigger questions of morals, ethics, and community service. Join me, Jill Shook of Making Housing and Community Happen and Philip Burns, AICP of The Arroyo Group as we embark on a far reaching conversation that covers everything from their faith-influenced journeys to housing, their congregational land committee and their message to housing developers, advocates and policymakers. Stay tuned for more podcasts to come, we've got a good line up for you this summer. https://bit.ly/3WgSST9  

The latest podcast out now focused on housing innovation. We are joined by Jenna Louie from Ivory Innovations and Michelle Boyd from Terner Labs to talk about off-site construction, ADU policy, capital gaps, scale, climate and more. This episode isn't just about the innovations themselves, but the ways that people, like Jenna and Michelle, and the organizations they work for, are building a better housing innovation ecosystem. We need a stronger housing innovation ecosystem to scale the companies that will help us meet our housing needs and help push policy forward. https://bit.ly/3SboKpU

We're back after a short summer hiatus with a really interesting episode on SB4 implementation and bigger questions of morals, ethics, and community service. Join me, Jill Shook of Making Housing and Community Happen and Philip Burns, AICP of The Arroyo Group as we embark on a far reaching conversation that covers everything from their faith-influenced journeys to housing, their congregational land committee and their message to housing developers, advocates and policymakers. Stay tuned for more podcasts to come, we've got a good line up for you this summer. https://bit.ly/3WgSST9  

As promised, the latest Substack on the lasting impact of the foreclosure crisis: how it fundamentally changed ownership. Three different bills were introduced this legislative session in Sacramento targeting investor ownership of single-family rentals. This is a canary in the coal mine for a larger challenge in housing policy and politics that goes beyond just single-family rentals. Ownership matters, in particular who owns housing and how we own housing. These bills are part of a larger movement more housers need to buy into that challenges the way our current housing market operates, from building a different tax and finance regime to establishing stronger tenants rights. We need to work together across common silos in the housing world to change the structure of ownership - rented, owned, and everything in between. If you haven’t yet, listen to Housing After Dark Episode 10: Maeve Elise Brown on Remembering the Foreclosure Crisis and Debt’s Radioactive Half-life, a great accompaniment to this newest piece. Don’t forget to like and subscribe. https://bit.ly/4dnUlO9 

Excited to release the newest podcast episode: Housing After Dark Episode 10: Maeve Brown on Remembering the Foreclosure Crisis and Debt's Radioactive Half-life. Certain basic housing rights should be independent of housing tenure and Maeve Brown and her org, Housing and Economic Rights Advocates, gets this right. We talk about everything from the foreclosure crisis to why credit has become so important to housing of all kinds. https://bit.ly/4d7i318 Stay tuned for the upcoming and related post on why who owns our homes is an absolutely essential part of housing policy and an even greater part of housing politics. Don't forget to like and subscribe. https://lnkd.in/eDuDb5Um 

Today is the California primary election. Excited to release the newest (and related) podcast episode: Housing After Dark Episode 9: Warren Logan on How Our Public Sector Can Operate Better. Honored to have Warren Logan on the podcast, a city planner with over a decade of experience in community engagement, land use planning and transportation safety. It was a great wide ranging conversation that covers everything from Logan's family history in housing, to the transportation/housing nexus, to why more city planners should run for office. With such wide ranging experience, Logan does something critical to help us move forward - he thinks across systems. https://bit.ly/3TkY5bi As always, don't forget to like and subscribe to Where We Go From Here, a newsletter and podcast about the past, present and future of housing, planning and urban development. https://lnkd.in/eDuDb5Um