Community TrailBlazers
Housing and community development's evolvement rests on the shoulders of women and men who have played a strong role in developing affordable housing and communities throughout the country. Their stories provide a human historical perspective on our cities and the housing within our cities.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 37 minutes
- Episodes
- 78
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2021
Ep. 58 - Norman McLoughlin: Creative Real Estate Financing Podcast
Norm McLoughlin is a master of creative real estate financing in the public sector. Whether it is tax exempt bonds, tax credit, or federal, state or local funds, Norm has experience in all of them! A…
Ep. 57 - Joseph Shuldiner: Engage the Residents
Can you imagine managing a 500K+ subsidized housing unit program with 10,238 employees? How about 9.375 units plus 58,000 families in the Section 8 program? Joseph Shuldiner is the only executive dir…
Ep. 56 - David Stevens | Close the Gap in Housing
David Stevens believes in a better America, a country where the economic gap is less wide and both the majority and the minority have safe affordable places to call home. The only way to do that is t…
Ep. 55 - Bryan Greene | National Association of Realtors
Bryan Greene handled numerous discrimination cases while managing HUD’s fair housing policy and practices. He informs us about the current impediments that prevent discrimination in both rental and s…
Ep. 54 - James Stockard: Housing Is a Right, Not a Privilege
“It’s time to ensure that no American has to worry about where they and their families will sleep tonight.” James Stockard, referred to as Jim, feels affordable housing should be a right, not a privi…
Ep. 53 - Mark Willis: Revival of Cities
Mark Willis’s life work is about stabilizing and revitalizing cities, with a strong focus on New York City, but creating theory and systems which would work throughout the country. He feels it is cru…
Ep. 52 - David Smith: Part 2 The Affordable Housing Guru Reveals the Future
Walk through a detector into a commercial building and be safe! Retrofit your house and be safe! Install an app that will let you know when someone with COVID is within your range. David Smith, the a…
Ep. 51 - Gerald Benoit: The Guru of Housing Vouchers
Meet Gerald Benoit, referred to as Jerry, one of the icons from the 1970s and a member of the Academy of Housing and Communities. He started out by directing a Section 23 Leased Housing program for t…
Ep. 50 - DeeDee Strum: Making her Mark in Community Development
Meet DeLois Strum, referred to as DeeDee, a 40+ year entrepreneur, a public speaker, an affordable housing advocate, and is currently involved in offshore wind as a renewable source of energy. DeeDee…
Ep. 49 - Carla Hills: Former U.S. Trade Ambassador and HUD Secretary
What would it be like to be responsible for negotiating a trade agreement with China or Japan or any other world country? Imagine yourself about to take a high-level job with the Federal government w…
Ep. 48 - Bruno Fulda: A French Global Change Agent
Bruno Fulda is a Frenchman who is determined to bring real change on a global scale. He believes in regulated capitalism’s interface with climate change and why fighting poverty and inequality are so…
Ep. 47 - Judith Hermanson: Smart City. Just City.
Judith Hermanson, President and CEO of IHC Global, brings a Smart City. Just City initiative to increase inclusiveness and equity in cities across the globe. The Smart City. Just City. Initiative wil…
Ep. 46 - Shel Shreiberg: Challenges? Not Me!
Shel Schreiberg considers himself very lucky for not experiencing any challenges during his career in the affordable housing sector. He is also very modest in all the projects he and his team members…
Ep. 45 - Jack Sullivan: The Good Fight
Meet John H. (“Jack”) Sullivan – if it’s part of his passion – watch out! If he wants something enough, he’ll fight for it until he gets it! He tells about his activism in many arenas – internation…
Ep. 44 - Marcia Blum: Omaha's Tireless Giver
Marcia Blum is a retired social worker and mental health therapist whose professional career included pioneering open adoption, hospice care and grief programs. She has worked in the private, public,…
Ep. 43 - Stockton Williams: State and National Role in Housing
Stockton Williams is Executive Director of the National Council of State Housing Agencies. NCSHA’s state housing finance agency members have delivered nearly $500 billion in financing to make possibl…
Ep. 42 - Malcomb Peabody: Freedom of Choice
Malcolm ‘Mike’ Peabody’s life has been founded on giving people the freedom of choice. He is known as the man who reinvented Public Housing. Working for HUD Secretary George Romney, Malcolm Peabody h…
Ep. 41-Joyce Cowin: Never Stop Learning
Joyce Cowin of New York City is a 90-year-old Fellow of the Academy going on 55. She never ceases to amaze those around her with her activities and achievements. Her last 40 years have been mainly sp…
Ep. 40 - Dwight Ink: The Indiana Jones of Public Administrators
One of the best storytellers ever, the 97-year-old activitist has had a fascinating life! Dwight Ink's government career serving seven Presidents is magnificent! A farm boy who couldn't afford shoes…
Ep. 39 - James W Loewen: Racial History and Sundown Towns
James Loewen's gripping retelling of American history as it should, and could, be taught, Lies My Teacher Told Me, has sold more than 1,500,000 copies and continues to inspire K-16 teachers to get st…