Today we have Kiel Lopez-Schmidt on the show. Kiel is a trained architect and the Executive Director of the South Tower Community Land Trust. In this conversation, we discuss affordable housing, planning commissions, AirBnB’s effect on the housing stock, homelessness as a housing problem, historical preservation, and more.
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Books:
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good by Adrienne Maree Brown
The First Sister by Linden Lewis
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
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