Affordable Housing: Essential for Stable Communities

In this episode, listeners are introduced to the challenge of affordable housing with Brian Dowling the Senior Vice President of Community Investments at CDT, America's first affordable housing REIT.  Brian shares with our listeners the importance that housing plays in the development and maintenance of stable communities-- reminding us that without stable communities none of us flourish.  The conversation continues with Susanne Slater, the CEO of DC Habitat for Humanity and the Chairman of the Board of the Coalition for Nonprofit Housing and Economic Development and the District of Columbia's $100 million affordable housing production trust fund.  Susanne talks about the seriousness of pervasive shortage of "workforce" housing and talks about the importance that home ownership plays in the creation of family wealth.  Continue the conversation on the Off the Air Conversations page of the More than Money podcast.