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While the affordable housing crisis is thought to be a big city problem, it is actually a problem justabout everywhere. Today’s guest, Stacey Epperson, has been working to provide affordable housingto rural America for decades, and we were lucky enough to have her as a guest on our podcast.Stacey Epperson has 30 years of experience in affordable housing development. She is thefounder of Next Step Network, a nonprofit dedicated to bringing affordable housing to those whoneed it. Next Step’s mission is to help people achieve home ownership through factory-built housing.Over these last three decades, she has built national networks and mission-driven nonprofitsworking with leaders in the manufactured housing industry, lending institutions, working to provideenergy efficient homes and better loans to support home buyers.You can learn about Next Step at:https://nextstepus.org/

While the affordable housing crisis is thought to be a big city problem, it is actually a problem justabout everywhere. Today’s guest, Stacey Epperson, has been working to provide affordable housingto rural America for decades, and we were lucky enough to have her as a guest on our podcast.Stacey Epperson has 30 years of experience in affordable housing development. She is thefounder of Next Step Network, a nonprofit dedicated to bringing affordable housing to those whoneed it. Next Step’s mission is to help people achieve home ownership through factory-built housing.Over these last three decades, she has built national networks and mission-driven nonprofitsworking with leaders in the manufactured housing industry, lending institutions, working to provideenergy efficient homes and better loans to support home buyers.You can learn about Next Step at:https://nextstepus.org/

This week we met with Rick Jacobus about Inclusionary Housing. Inclusionary housing is a wayto work with developers to create affordable housing alongside of market rate housing in a waywhere ideally the neighbors, the community, and the developer all “win.”Mr. Jacobus has a broad background perfect for helping us explore inclusionary housing. He isthe principal of Street Level Advisors, a consulting firm specializing in inclusionary housing strategies. Mr. Jacobus has a bachelor’s degree from Oberlin College and a Master of City Planning degree from the University of California at Berkeley. He also has decades of experience working with cities on affordable housing and other community issues. Mr. Jacobus is founder of Cornerstone Partnership, a national initiative focused on building more inclusive communities, served as a fellow at CoMetrics and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, and is a partner in Burlington Associates in Community Development. He is a lecturer at UC Berkeley and is Senior Program Officer for the Local Initiatives Support Corporation.Street Level Advisors: http://streetleveladvisors.com/Cornerstone Partnership: https://groundedsolutions.org/

This week we met with Rick Jacobus about Inclusionary Housing. Inclusionary housing is a wayto work with developers to create affordable housing alongside of market rate housing in a waywhere ideally the neighbors, the community, and the developer all “win.”Mr. Jacobus has a broad background perfect for helping us explore inclusionary housing. He isthe principal of Street Level Advisors, a consulting firm specializing in inclusionary housing strategies. Mr. Jacobus has a bachelor’s degree from Oberlin College and a Master of City Planning degree from the University of California at Berkeley. He also has decades of experience working with cities on affordable housing and other community issues. Mr. Jacobus is founder of Cornerstone Partnership, a national initiative focused on building more inclusive communities, served as a fellow at CoMetrics and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, and is a partner in Burlington Associates in Community Development. He is a lecturer at UC Berkeley and is Senior Program Officer for the Local Initiatives Support Corporation.Street Level Advisors: http://streetleveladvisors.com/Cornerstone Partnership: https://groundedsolutions.org/

This week we talk to John Weldy about energy efficiency and home affordability. We learnhow smaller homes tend to be more energy efficient, but they are penalized by currentenergy efficiency measuring systems, which make it hard to compare energy use from hometo home.The good news is, there are a couple of easy ways to know whether or not a new home willbe more energy efficient than similar models, and we talk about how consumers can protectthemselves as well as how local governments can adjust their building codes to put smallerhomes on equal footing as larger homes when energy efficiency requirementsMr. Weldy is a Purdue graduate and has been in the factory-built housing industry for 26years now. He's been the Director of Engineering with Clayton Homes since 2005. {Fortransparency, please note we are an independent manufactured home dealer that sellsClayton Homes products.}https://www.claytonhomes.com/He's a registered professional engineer on the civil and structural side in 39 States. He holdsInternational Code Council Certifications for residential inspections for all disciplines. Justfinished serving on the Department of Housing and Urban Development's ManufacturedHousing Consensus Committee, where he was the chairman of the Technical Systemsubcommittee as well as the chair of several taskforce groups. He's an active member of theManufactured Housing Institute and on the board of Systems Building Research Alliance.Relevant links to today’s conversation include:Information about ISO 14001 registration: https://www.claytonhomes.com/studio/what-is-iso-14001/Information on the Home Energy Score [HES] developed by the Department of Energy: https://www.energy.gov/eere/buildings/downloads/home-energy-scoreInformation on the Home Energy Rating System [HERS] developed by the Residential EnergyService Network: https://www.hersindex.com/hers-index/what-is-the-hers-index/Information on the Energy Star program as well as information on Clayton’s Energy SmartHome Package: https://www.energystar.gov/https://www.claytonhomes.com/studio/saving-big-with-green-energy-smart-home-packages/Finally, information from CPS Energy about energy efficiency in your home: https://www.cpsenergy.com/en/my-home/savenow/energy-saving--tips.html

This week we talk to John Weldy about energy efficiency and home affordability. We learnhow smaller homes tend to be more energy efficient, but they are penalized by currentenergy efficiency measuring systems, which make it hard to compare energy use from hometo home.The good news is, there are a couple of easy ways to know whether or not a new home willbe more energy efficient than similar models, and we talk about how consumers can protectthemselves as well as how local governments can adjust their building codes to put smallerhomes on equal footing as larger homes when energy efficiency requirementsMr. Weldy is a Purdue graduate and has been in the factory-built housing industry for 26years now. He's been the Director of Engineering with Clayton Homes since 2005. {Fortransparency, please note we are an independent manufactured home dealer that sellsClayton Homes products.}https://www.claytonhomes.com/He's a registered professional engineer on the civil and structural side in 39 States. He holdsInternational Code Council Certifications for residential inspections for all disciplines. Justfinished serving on the Department of Housing and Urban Development's ManufacturedHousing Consensus Committee, where he was the chairman of the Technical Systemsubcommittee as well as the chair of several taskforce groups. He's an active member of theManufactured Housing Institute and on the board of Systems Building Research Alliance.Relevant links to today’s conversation include:Information about ISO 14001 registration: https://www.claytonhomes.com/studio/what-is-iso-14001/Information on the Home Energy Score [HES] developed by the Department of Energy: https://www.energy.gov/eere/buildings/downloads/home-energy-scoreInformation on the Home Energy Rating System [HERS] developed by the Residential EnergyService Network: https://www.hersindex.com/hers-index/what-is-the-hers-index/Information on the Energy Star program as well as information on Clayton’s Energy SmartHome Package: https://www.energystar.gov/https://www.claytonhomes.com/studio/saving-big-with-green-energy-smart-home-packages/Finally, information from CPS Energy about energy efficiency in your home: https://www.cpsenergy.com/en/my-home/savenow/energy-saving--tips.html

This week we talk to Randy Shaw about the YIMBY (Yes! In My Back Yard) movement and its necessity when it comes to sustainable affordable housing. Randy points out it is not just the poor who are negatively affected by a lack of affordable housing, but people under 30 and seniors are both having a hard time findingaffordable housing right for them.Randy is the director of the Tenderloin Housing Clinic in San Francisco, one of the leading providers of housing for homeless single adults. He is the author of "Generation Priced Out: Who Gets to Live in the New Urban America". He also edits for beyondchron.org and is a vocal advocate for the YIMBY movement.

This week we talk to Randy Shaw about the YIMBY (Yes! In My Back Yard) movement and its necessity when it comes to sustainable affordable housing. Randy points out it is not just the poor who are negatively affected by a lack of affordable housing, but people under 30 and seniors are both having a hard time findingaffordable housing right for them.Randy is the director of the Tenderloin Housing Clinic in San Francisco, one of the leading providers of housing for homeless single adults. He is the author of "Generation Priced Out: Who Gets to Live in the New Urban America". He also edits for beyondchron.org and is a vocal advocate for the YIMBY movement.

Carla Potts, Deputy Director of Housing Development of Northeast Community Action Corporation (NECAC), joins us today to discuss their ASPIRE program, a joint initiative to reduce prison recidivism while increasing the available affordable housing.We cover how ASPIRE trains people in Missouri’s correctional facilities in skilled and semi-skilled trades by building new homes inside of prison walls. These homes are later transported to a property and purchased for the cost of building and installing the home. Hear how ASPIRE is aimed at helping people with affordable housing while at the same time helping people in prison learn skills they want to learn to enter the job force at a decent wage after release from prison.NECAC is following the model set forth in South Dakota’s Governor’s House project.http://necac.org/

Carla Potts, Deputy Director of Housing Development of Northeast Community Action Corporation (NECAC), joins us today to discuss their ASPIRE program, a joint initiative to reduce prison recidivism while increasing the available affordable housing.We cover how ASPIRE trains people in Missouri’s correctional facilities in skilled and semi-skilled trades by building new homes inside of prison walls. These homes are later transported to a property and purchased for the cost of building and installing the home. Hear how ASPIRE is aimed at helping people with affordable housing while at the same time helping people in prison learn skills they want to learn to enter the job force at a decent wage after release from prison.NECAC is following the model set forth in South Dakota’s Governor’s House project.http://necac.org/

This week we talked with Dr. Christine Drennon, housing expert and professor atTrinity University. We discovered a lot of challenges in making housing affordable,how the current models of affordable housing have not yet proved themselves assuccessful, and some opportunities we all have to work toward sustainable affordablehousing for all.You can learn more about Dr. Christine Drennon, today’s guest, here: https://inside.trinity.edu/directory/cdrennonOrganizations mentioned in this interview include: Trinity University- https://new.trinity.edu/San Antonio Mayor’s Housing Policy Task Force- https://www.sanantonio.gov/HousingTaskForceSan Antonio Heron- https://saheron.com/Alamo Community Group- https://www.alamocommunitygroup.org/Habitat for Humanity – San Antonio- https://www.habitatsa.org/

This week we talked with Dr. Christine Drennon, housing expert and professor atTrinity University. We discovered a lot of challenges in making housing affordable,how the current models of affordable housing have not yet proved themselves assuccessful, and some opportunities we all have to work toward sustainable affordablehousing for all.You can learn more about Dr. Christine Drennon, today’s guest, here: https://inside.trinity.edu/directory/cdrennonOrganizations mentioned in this interview include: Trinity University- https://new.trinity.edu/San Antonio Mayor’s Housing Policy Task Force- https://www.sanantonio.gov/HousingTaskForceSan Antonio Heron- https://saheron.com/Alamo Community Group- https://www.alamocommunitygroup.org/Habitat for Humanity – San Antonio- https://www.habitatsa.org/

This week, we chat with Anthony Flint of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.We discuss how government land policies can artificially restrict land usage limitingdensity and therefore leading to artificial inflation of land values. Not only does it leadto skyrocketing housing costs, but a smaller tax base, underutilization of space, andgreenhouse gases contributing to climate change.We also talk a bit about the YIMBY (Yes, In My Back Yard) movement, and how ittakes concerned citizens to help shape government policy. Is there too muchgovernment interference? Mr. Flint has an interesting insight into that as well.For more information about land policy, you can visit the Lincoln Institute for LandPolicy here: https://www.lincolninst.edu/You can listen to the Land Matters Podcast on their website: https://www.lincolninst.edu/publications/articles/land-matters-podcastApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/land-matters/id1464810062Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/Inzxzcd3r34344a2otvjfbnogxuSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7kBKQ8nvA2GkU2kfdctElnStitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/lincoln-institute-of-land-policy/land-matters?refid=stprOr wherever you listen to podcasts.Feel free to learn more about Anthony Flint here: https://www.lincolninst.edu/about-lincoln-institute/people/anthony-flint

This week, we chat with Anthony Flint of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.We discuss how government land policies can artificially restrict land usage limitingdensity and therefore leading to artificial inflation of land values. Not only does it leadto skyrocketing housing costs, but a smaller tax base, underutilization of space, andgreenhouse gases contributing to climate change.We also talk a bit about the YIMBY (Yes, In My Back Yard) movement, and how ittakes concerned citizens to help shape government policy. Is there too muchgovernment interference? Mr. Flint has an interesting insight into that as well.For more information about land policy, you can visit the Lincoln Institute for LandPolicy here: https://www.lincolninst.edu/You can listen to the Land Matters Podcast on their website: https://www.lincolninst.edu/publications/articles/land-matters-podcastApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/land-matters/id1464810062Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/Inzxzcd3r34344a2otvjfbnogxuSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7kBKQ8nvA2GkU2kfdctElnStitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/lincoln-institute-of-land-policy/land-matters?refid=stprOr wherever you listen to podcasts.Feel free to learn more about Anthony Flint here: https://www.lincolninst.edu/about-lincoln-institute/people/anthony-flint

This week our guest is Professor Daniel Mandelker, author of “Zoning Barriersto Manufactured Housing” published in the journal Urban Law. ProfessorMandelker covers how, in many places in our country, restrictive zoning andbuilding codes have unfairly prevented access to manufactured housing, whichnegatively affects the ability of communities to provide additional affordablehousing.Professor Daniel Mandelker is one of the country's leading scholars andteachers in land use law and co-author of a popular law school casebook,"Planning and Control of Land Development," now in its Ninth Edition. He alsoauthored "Land Use Law, a comprehensive treatise in this field" and co-authored"Property Law and the Public Interest."Professor Mandelker has lectured throughout the world including CambridgeUniversity in England and is also the principal consultant to the AmericanPlanning Association's model zoning and planning legislation project.Links mentioned in the podcast include:https://www.lincolninst.edu/publications/series/land-lines-magazinehttp://landuselaw.wustl.edu/