Greg Morrow is the Executive Director and Faculty Director at the UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design. In this episode, Greg joins Al to talk about the middle housing process in California and what Canada can learn from it. They talk about the cost of housing, how middle housing affects transit and what is realistically needed to create developments that don’t harm existing neighbourhoods.

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Show notes:

• 01:30 – How Greg got interested in real estate development and urban design. 
• 07:00 – What’s working in California with housing and what Canada can learn. 
• 09:40 – How do we create certainty around housing?
• 11:00 – How does middle housing affect transit? Does increasing supply create affordable housing?
• 15:20 – U.S. private corporations that make money delivering subsidized housing. 
• 20:00 – Inclusionary housing vs exclusionary.
• 27:00 – When density happens.
• 32:00 – How do you do development in a way that doesn’t have negative effects on the immediate community? 
• 35:20 – What’s next for Greg?