Home Is Here Podcast Series
Episode 1 – How Did We Get Here: The Community Impact of the Cost of Housing
Podcast host Aaron Tiedemann, Housing Specialist at HCD, talks with Stephanie Hawke, Associate Research Director of Land Use and Supply at the Terner Center, about how we ended up in this housing affordability crisis, why affordable housing is complicated to build, and how housing will get us out of it.
Episode 2 – Innovative Solutions: The SHIFT Program for Missing Middle Housing
Podcast host Aaron Tiedemann, Housing Specialist at HCD, talks with Carrie Shores Diller, founder and principal architect of Inspired ADUs, about the challenges and opportunities of building in new ways in the Bay Area. Inspired ADUs is the County’s program partner in implementing SHIFT, and the conversation covers what it takes to move pre-approved designs, small multifamily buildings, and new construction methods from concept to construction.
Episode 3 – Keeping People Housed: Preventing Displacement
Podcast Host Mrs. Shelly, Board Member of the Alameda County Continuum of Care, takes a deep dive into preventing displacement of people from housing when she talks to David Hall, Managing Attorney for Tenants Rights from Centro Legal de la Raza. David and his team provide legal services to low-income tenants, protect them from eviction, and defend their housing rights.
Episode 4 – Preventing Homelessness in Alameda County
Podcast Host Katie Alducin, a Manager within the Alameda County Housing and Community Development department, talks to Jonathan Russell, Director of Housing and Homelessness Services for Alameda Count about how we can not make progress on the housing crisis until we can prevent people from falling into homelessness, and how the County is going to use the Measure W funds to get and keep people housed.
Check back for intriguing interviews with people in the field on housing, how we got to this crisis point, getting funding to build affordable housing and preventing homelessness.
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