Episode 9: Affordable Housing: Who Needs It?
Host Julie B Adler speaks to practitioners from the Berkshires and across of the country who are working on innovative and far-reaching solutions to the affordable housing gap affecting larger and larger sectors of the population. Barney Stein, realtor with Lance Vermulean Realtors, June Wolfe, Housing Director for Construct in the Berkshires, Leilah Powell, Executive Director of LISC-San Antonio, and businessman and developer Victor Miramontes, Managing Director of CM. Properties, whose adaptive reuse of a former seminary won the Jack Kemp, chairman’s award from the Urban Land Institute, share their experience. Their insights reveal practices that invite further exploration and discussion of ways to increase affordable housing locally.