NALHFA Affordable Housing Podcast

The newest episode of the Affordable Housing Podcast is now available. This episode features a conversation between NALHFA Director of Government Affairs Josh Brandwein and Madeleine Marr, Legislative Assistant for U.S. Senator John Fetterman (D-PA). Josh and Madeline discuss Senator Fetterman’s Whole-Home Repairs Act which was introduced this year during the 118th Congress. The Whole-Home Repairs Act would create a national five-year pilot program to expand on a successful and popular Pennsylvania program designed to help homeowners with critical home repairs. Listen now to hear more on how Senator Fetterman’s bill would help affordable housing in critical need of repair and increase infrastructure health in communities.

The newest episode of the Affordable Housing Podcast is now available. In this episode, Membership and Operations Senior Associate Allison Ward speaks to Tom Loftus, Studio Director for Aufgang architectural firm to dive into their innovative setup for affordable housing in New York City.

Aufgang's innovation centers on adaptive reuse and cohabitating affordable housing and worship spaces. Victory Baptist is a pair of six-story mixed-use buildings at 1007 Union Avenue in Morrisania, The Bronx. Designed by Aufgang Architects and developed by Michael Callaghan of Exact Capital, the structure yields 95 residences. Available on NYC Housing Connect are 79 units for residents at 130 percent of the area median income (AMI), ranging in eligible income from $17,452 to $132,400.

In addition to the 101,226 sq. ft. of apartment space, there is 22,760 sq. ft. of commercial space. Community facility space is included, to be used by the church. The site also includes parking and space for the sanctuary and church offices.

The newest episode of the Affordable Housing Podcast is now available. In this episode, Membership and Operations Senior Associate Allison Ward speaks to the New York City Housing Development Corporation to talk about their award-winning project, 425 Grand Concourse. Joining Allison is Eric Enderlin, President of NYCHDC.

The development of 425 Grand Concourse is a success story that exemplifies what can be accomplished when innovative and committed partners, elected officials and local leaders work in concert to create community focused solutions that not only repurpose under-utilized and/or vacant sites, but more importantly, create a development that addresses critical issues such as affordability, sustainability and addressing the diverse needs of a community.

Located in the Mott Haven neighborhood of the south Bronx, this newly constructed, cutting edge, mixed-use, mixed-income, 26-story, 277-unit tower has emerged on the Grand Concourse on a 29,000-square foot site that was formerly home to the renowned, but structurally unsound, Public School 31. A site that provided education for a generation, is now repurposed to serve the community by providing, housing, open space, and community services including education, health care, a supermarket and a cultural center.

The newest episode of the Affordable Housing Podcast is now available. In this episode, Membership and Operations Senior Associate Allison Ward, Speaks to guests in NALHFA’s own backyard, the DC Housing Finance Agency. They talk about their award-winning project, The Douglass: A Todd A. Lee Townhome Community. Joining Allison from DCHFA is Christopher Donald, Executive Director & CEO along with Kori Heyward, current resident of The Douglass.

The newest episode of the Affordable Housing Podcast is now available. In this episode, Director of Government Affairs, Josh Brandwein speaks with Jessica Facciponti, NALHFA’s Legislative Committee Chair and Vice President of Government Affairs at the New York City Housing Development Corporation (NYCHDC), and Brian Daaleman, Director of External Affairs also with NYCHDC, to talk about the latest happenings in federal relations in Washington, D.C. 

The newest episode of the Affordable Housing Podcast is now available. In this episode, Membership and Operations Senior Associate Allison Ward speaks with Matthew Brooks, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre on Population Dynamics and Department of Sociology at McGill University to talk about the evolution of affordable housing in the United States.

Dr. Matthew Brooks is a is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Sociology at McGill University (Montreal, QC). Matt is a trained rural sociologist and demographer whose research is focused on the causes and consequences of demographic change on communities, chiefly impacts on housing, poverty, and racial inequality. Importantly, his work explores how these changes vary between urban, suburban, and rural places in the United States. 

The newest episode of the Affordable Housing Podcast is now available. In this episode, Membership and Operations Senior Associate Allison Ward speaks with former community organizer, housing policy expert, and co-author to Richard Rothstein, Leah Rothstein to talk about racial inequity in housing, and what the affordable housing community can do to help undo housing segregation.

Leah Rothstein co-authored, with Richard Rothstein, a sequel to The Color of Law. While in The Color of Law, Mr. Rothstein described how government policy created residential segregation, the sequel will describe how local community groups can redress the wrongs of segregation. Leah has worked on public policy and community change, from the grassroots to the halls of government. She led the Alameda County and San Francisco probation departments’ research on reforming community corrections policy and practice to be focused on rehabilitation, not punishment. She has been a consultant to nonprofit housing developers, cities and counties, redevelopment agencies, and private firms on community development and affordable housing policy, practice, and finance.