Demystifying Affordable Housing — with Deborah Myerson

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Have you ever heard the phrase "affordable housing" used by 5 different people, but it seems like every one of them is talking about something slightly different? This episode will help shed some light on this sometimes confusing, always complex subject. AJ and Deborah go deep and we are here for it.

Lots of great content to check out after you listen to this episode:

Deborah’s Business:

https://dmyersonconsulting.com/

Mentioned in This Episode:

How Did They Do It? Discovering New Opportunities for Affordable Housing

https://dmyersonconsulting.files.wordpress.com/2021/04/how-did-they-do-it-jan-2017.pdf

Few American Cities are Truly Dense. We Can Do Better.

https://www.governing.com/community/few-american-cities-are-truly-dense-we-can-do-better

Public Meetings Thwart Housing Reform Where it is Needed Most

https://www.governing.com/now/public-meetings-thwart-housing-reform-where-it-is-needed-most

Some of Deborah’s Work:

Invisible Neighbors: How To Include People Left Out of B-town’s Neighborhoods

https://limestonepostmagazine.com/invisible-neighbors-left-out-of-neighborhoods/

Best in American Living (Blog)

https://bestinamericanliving.com/?s=deborah+myerson

Prospects for New Housing Cooperatives: Feasibility Study for Housing Cooperatives in the Northern Rockies

https://dmyersonconsulting.files.wordpress.com/2020/09/prospects-for-new-housing-cooperatives-executive-summary-1.pdf

Multifamily Housing Development: Ten Case Studies of Innovative Projects

https://uli.bookstore.ipgbook.com/multifamily-housing-development--ten-case-studies-of-innovative-projects-products-9780874203868.php

Other Relevant Tools and Articles:

Are We Doing This Right: Granny Flats Edition

https://www.verdunity.com/podcast/episode-37

The Affordable City: Strategies for Putting Housing Within Reach (and Keeping it There) by Shane Phillips

https://islandpress.org/books/affordable-city

Supportive Housing: A Community Solution

https://www.csh.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/BeyondNIMBYpdf.pdf

The Radical Way Cities are Tackling Affordable Housing

https://www.fastcompany.com/90618596/the-radical-way-cities-are-tackling-affordable-housing

Local Tools to Address Housing Affordability: A State-By-State Analysis

https://www.nlc.org/resource/local-tools-to-address-housing-affordability-a-state-by-state-analysis/

Cooperatively Owned Builder Sees Affordable Housing, Climate Action in ‘Granny Flats’

https://nextcity.org/urbanist-news/cooperatively-owned-builder-sees-affordable-housing-climate-action-in-grann