2021 Ivory Prize with Kent Colton
Vice President, Research & Modeling*
2021 Ivory Prize with Kent Colton
Steve Guggenmos and Corey Aber
Third times a charm – we’re thrilled to welcome back Kent Colton to the podcast. Kent is president of the Colton Housing Group and senior research fellow at the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard. He is also chairman of the advisory board for the Ivory Prize for Housing Affordability. The Ivory Prize winners exemplify innovation and solutions to housing affordability. In this episode, we take an in-depth look at what is going on at a grassroots level, emerging themes from 2020 and recap this year’s Ivory Prize winners.
- Chapter 1: 0:00 – Background of the Ivory Prize
- Chapter 2: 7:50 – Innovation & Construction
- Chapter 3: 13:45 – Creative Finance
- Chapter 4: 15:30 – Renter Assistance
- Chapter 5: 17:00 – Existing Housing & Land
- Chapter 6: 20:55 – Preserving & Producing Affordable Housing
- Chapter 7: 22:55 – Removing Regulatory Barriers
- Chapter 8: 27:00 - end – Lessons and winners
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