Eden Housing

In this episode of the Affordable Housing Podcast, brought to you by Eden Housing, host Joanne Greene speaks to David Garcia, Policy Director at the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at UC Berkeley. Garcia provides an overview of California's legislative session and what it means for affordable housing production throughout the state.

To learn more, visit: https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/

Eden supported nine bills that advanced to Governor Newsom, who signed all but one. Read a summary of this legislation here: https://edenhousing.org/eden-updates/end-of-legislative-session-recap-eden-supported-bills-signed-by-the-governor/

In this episode of the Affordable Housing Podcast, brought to you by Eden Housing, host Joanne Greene speaks to Gabriela Chavez-Lopez, Communications and Membership Manager at SV@Home, a Silicon Valley-based membership organization that advocates for an increased supply of affordable housing. Gabriela takes us behind the scenes of Affordable Housing Month- a series of workshops, webinars, and community engagement opportunities aimed at activating and engaging supporters about our housing challenges and solutions.

While housing policy can be a complex subject, Gabriela urges you to seek out educational events and organizations that make it more accessible and understandable. To learn more, or to get involved, visit siliconvalleyathome.org.

In this episode of the Affordable Housing Podcast, brought to you by Eden Housing, host Joanne Greene speaks to Linda Mandolini, President of Eden Housing, and Don Gilmore, Executive Director of Community Housing Development Corporation (CHDC). Hear about the organizations' longstanding partnership to bring about positive community change and create housing opportunities for low-income families and individuals in Richmond. Gilmore and Mandolini also discuss efforts to promote diversity within the Real Estate Development and Property Management industries.

To learn more or get involved visit communityhdc.org or edenhousing.org.

In this episode of the Affordable Housing Podcast, brought to you by Eden Housing, host Joanne Greene speaks to Tomiquia Moss, Founder and CEO of All Home, a nonprofit organization advancing regional solutions that disrupt cycles of poverty and homelessness and create more economic mobility opportunities for extremely low-income people. Moss discusses the overlapping COVID-19 pandemic and housing crisis and highlights the importance of forging racially equitable solutions.

Sharing insight into upcoming legislation, Tomiquia Moss encourages you to get involved in advocacy!

To learn more or get involved, visit allhomeca.org.

In this episode of the Affordable Housing Podcast, brought to you by Eden Housing, host Joanne Greene speaks to Carolina Reid, Assistant Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning at UC Berkeley, and Faculty Research Advisor at the Terner Center for Housing Innovation. Professor Reid shares findings from the Terner Center's latest report, "Recession and Recovery: The Critical Role of Housing Assistance in Promoting Economic Security for Low-Income Households."

The analysis is the first to track changes in the incomes of residents living in Low-Income Housing Tax Credit-funded properties over time using longitudinal data for residents living in Eden Housing properties between 2003 and 2019.

Read the full report at https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/recession-and-recovery-housing-assistance

In this 100th episode of the Affordable Housing Podcast, brought to you by Eden Housing, host Joanne Greene speaks to Assemblymember Marc Berman (D-24). Assemblymember Berman speaks about the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on affordable housing, and he emphasizes that the crises we’re already facing, including the housing crisis, homelessness crisis, and climate change, have not disappeared. As he says, “we know we did a good job last year of passing policies to protect tenants, but we did not do enough on the housing production side, and we just can’t wait another year.”

For more information, visit https://a24.asmdc.org/.

In this episode of the Affordable Housing Podcast, brought to you by Eden Housing, host Joanne Greene speaks to Conor Dougherty, NY Times reporter and author of Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America. Conor speaks about the inspiration for his book and discusses how punishing rents and the increasingly prohibitive cost of ownership have turned housing into the foremost symbol of inequality and an economy gone wrong.

In this episode of the Affordable Housing Podcast, brought to you by Eden Housing, host Joanne Greene speaks to Alameda County Supervisor Wilma Chan. Supervisor Chan discusses the genesis and implementation of Measure A1, a housing bond to help those struggling with the cost of housing, to help people experiencing homelessness find long-term solutions, and to help people become homeowners.

To learn more, visit:

• https://edenhousing.org/
• https://www.acgov.org/cda/hcd/bond.htm
• https://www.acgov.org/board/district3/

In this episode of the Affordable Housing Podcast, brought to you by Eden Housing, host Joanne Greene speaks to Liam Dillon, Los Angeles Times reporter covering issues of housing affordability and neighborhood change. Dillon explains how layered and interconnected housing issues are to other social issues. "It's not just about laws or home prices. Every single societal issue is run through the issue of where you live- whether race, class, generational equity, environmental issues, or education." Hear more insight from Liam Dillon in this episode.

For more, visit:

www.edenhousing.org

www.latimes.com/people/liam-dillon

In this episode of the Affordable Housing Podcast, brought to you by Eden Housing, host Joanne Greene speaks to Alameda Mayor Marilyn Ezzy Ashcraft. As Mayor Ashcraft says, “[California] can’t boast about being the 5th largest economy in the world, while at the same time have thousands of our citizens unsheltered on the streets. We have to do lots of things, and we have to do them simultaneously.” Most recently, the City of Alameda, along with Eden Housing and Alameda Point Partners, broke ground on Alameda Point Senior Apartments, which will provide 60 new homes to seniors on the site of the former Naval Air Station Alameda. Hear more about this development, as well as Alameda’s unique history, successes, and future plans, in this episode.