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A global catalogue of policy, finance, and design-build solutions to build housing better, faster, and more affordably for everyone.

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The Essential Housing Campaign is a global knowledge-sharing campaign to build more affordable housing for everyone ‘in the middle’, who desire to live in the communities they work.

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LATEST EPISODE

LATEST EPISODE

Ep. 38: HIGH DENSITY PARKING SOLUTIONS FOR HOUSING

– December 28th, 2022 Premiere –

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HOW

WHAT

High Density Parking Solutions For Housing

Michael O'Bryan

Group VP of Engineering, Park Plus, Inc.

Rebuilding Ukraine with Transitional Housing

Design Community

Slava Balbek

Architect, Founder, CEO of balbek bureau

Green Bonds and Development REITs in Nairobi, Kenya

Raghav Gandhi

Chief Investment Officer, Acorn Holdings Ltd.

3D Printing Homes in India

Adithya Jain, Vidyashankar Chandrasekaran, & Parivarthan Reddy

Co-Founders, Tvasta Manufacturing Solutions

Modular Housing Using Shipping Containers vs. Steel vs. Wood

Design Construction

Michael Bohn, Erika Stubstad, Justin Roth

Architect Leads, Studio One Eleven

Skid Grow – Reimaging The Skid Row Neighborhood of Los Angeles

Adam Sokol

Principal Founder, ASAP Architecture Practice

Enhanced Infrastructure Financing Districts for New Housing in LA County

Los Angeles County Supervisor

Building Housing Over Freeways (Airspace Homes)

Land Design Construction

Charlie Perla

Principal Architect, DMS PERLA

Housing Made of Concrete Culverts (Boyle Tower)

Design Construction

Jose Herrasti

Principal Architect, Mutuo

Reinventing Social Housing in Vienna

Finance Design Land Construction Policy Community

Kurt Hofstetter

Director of Vienna IBA, Vienna City Planning Department

Designing A Walkable, Affordable, For-Sale Subdivision

Gerhard Mayer, AIA

Principal, GGLO Design

The Future of Concrete Construction

Gregg Lewis

EVP, National Ready Mixed Concrete Association (NRMCA)

The Future of Wood Construction

WoodWorks, Softwood Lumber Board

The Benefits and Challenges of Modular Construction

Darren Seary, FRICS

Principal, Optimum Modular Solutions

Scaling Up Housing on Public Land

Finance Construction Design Land Policy Community

Helmi Hisserich

Fmr. Ass. GM, Los Angeles Housing and Community Investment Department // Current Senior Principal at LeSar Development Consultants

10 Ways To Build More Infill Housing

Patrick Kennedy

Founder, Panoramic Interests

Railway City: A New Vision for Africa in Nairobi, Kenya

Charles M. Hinga

Principal Secretary, Kenya's State Department Housing and Urban Development

The Benefits & Challenges of 3D Printing, from Dubai’s Office of the Future

Ben Piper

Partner & Design Principal, Killa Design

New Affordable Design Competition in Frankfurt (Housing for All)

Peter Cachola Schmal

Museum Director, Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM)

Visualizing Higher Density in Your Neighborhood, with ArcGIS Urban

Design Community

Brooks Patrick + Christine Ma

Urban Planning and Smart City Solutions, ESRI

SCAG’s Regional Data Platform: Building Regional Consensus For An Equity Agenda

Data Land Policy

Hon. Rex Richardson

Fmr. President of Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) + Long Beach Councilmember

Finding A City’s Capacity For New Housing, with HELPR

Land Policy Data

Robin Franke

Urban Planning and Smart City Solutions, ESRI

Modular Manufacturing at Scale with CIMC

Marco Ma & Vick Liu

CIMC Modular Building Systems

Car Elevators & Parking Automation

Design Construction

Parkmatic & Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Machinery Systems

Streamlining Complex Zoning Code with Complaw

Leila Banijamali

CEO, Symbium

Black Architecture: Unearthing a Black Aesthetic

Demar Matthews

Founder, OffTop Design

Vertical Integration of the Building System with Blokable

Design Construction

Aaron Holm

Co-CEO, Blokable

Navigating Development Approvals in LA City

Robert Duenas

Principal City Planner, LA City Planning's Development Services Center

10 Financing and Policy Solutions to Accelerate Workforce Housing from Milken Institute

Matt Horton

Director, Center for Regional Economics and California Center, Milken Institute

Upzoning a City – Lessons from Minneapolis 2040 Community Plan

Paul Mogush, AICP

Manager, Community Planning Long Range Planning Division, Minneapolis

Lessons in Policy from “Missing Middle Housing Challenge” in Arlington, VA

Richard Tucker

Housing Arlington Coordinator at Arlington County

$1 Billion Real Estate Fund for Black and Brown Communities

SoLa Impact LLC

The Right To Housing for Essential Workers & Beyond

Policy Community

Mark Ridley-Thomas

City Councilman, District 10 of Los Angeles

Social Housing’s Saved Costs & Shared Amenities in Zurich (Mehr Als Wohnen)

Design Construction

Anne Kaestle

Architect, Partner, Duplex Architects

Facebook, & Big Tech’s Role Investing in Housing Production

John Tenanes

VP of Global Facilities + RE, Facebook

Boston’s Missing Middle Housing Future Decker

Taylor Cain

Director, Boston's Housing Innovation Lab

Developing a New District: Lessons from HafenCity (Hamburg, Germany)

Design Community

Jürgen Bruns-Berentelg

Professor, CEO of HafenCity Hamburg GmbH

Homeownership for Moderate Income Households in LA

Darrell Simien

SVP Community Development, Habitat for Humanity, Greater Los Angeles

Lessons from City-Led Workforce Housing Funds in D.C.

Polly Donaldson

Director, DC Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD)

Acquisition Funding to Create Moderate Income Housing

Jon Penkower

Managing Director, California Statewide Communities Development Authority

Increasing Construction Productivity

Jacques Bughin

Director, McKinsey Global Institute

Building More “Missing Middle Housing” Typologies

Daniel Parolek

Author, Missing Middle Housing

Improving Integration In The Construction Process

Design Construction

Wolf Mangelsdorf

Partner, Buro Happold Engineering

Community of Tomorrow: Lessons in City Planning and Experimentation from Disney / EPCOT

Matt Patches

Senior Writer at Esquire.com

More Inclusive Development via The State Density Bonus

Assembly Member David Chiu

California State Assembly Member, State Assembly District 17 (Eastside of San Francisco)

Statewide Mandate for More Small-Scale Density: SB 10

CA State Senator Scott Weiner

California State Senator, 11th Senate District (City of San Francisco)

Living Without Single Family Zoning in Oregon

Community Policy

Chief Planner, Portland, Oregon

Housing California: The Need For A Big Vision

Governor Gavin Newsom

Governor, State of California

Activating School Properties For Teacher Housing

Design Land Policy

Dana Cuff

cityLAB / Author, 21st Century Schoolyard Housing

Los Angeles Municipal Development Corporation

Policy Finance Construction

Ron Galperin

Los Angeles City Controller

A New Color of Money

Mehrsa Baradaran

Author, The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap

Underwriting Moderate Income Housing Development

Bryan Barker

Director, Citi Community Capital

Accelerating Construction Speed

Juliet Jiang

Senior Vice President for BROAD Sustainable Buildings

Property Tax Exemptions (California’s AB-2829)

Assembly Member Phil Ting

California State Assembly Member, 19th Assembly District (Westside of San Francisco)

Five Alternative Housing Models for America

Community Design

Diana Lind

Author, Brave New Home

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