Episode 30: Learning from Exemplary Mixed-Income Transformation Efforts in San Francisco and Toronto
Description
This episode continues our 10th Anniversary podcast series focused on revisiting some of our favorite reports from our first decade. In this episode, our guest host Salin Geevarghese revisits our Promising Practices in Inclusive Social Dynamics report which spotlights exemplary efforts to build inclusive communities across lines of income, race and ethnicity. The lead authors of the paper are Joni Hirsh and Mark Joseph. In this episode, Salin talks with two deeply experienced mixed-income community builders who have been part of the exemplary transformation initiatives we spotlighted in the paper.
Ashlei Hurst is the Director of Community Life at Mercy Housing California, which a major development partner in the HOPE SF initiative in San Francisco. Mercy Housing is leading a multi-phase mixed-income transformation of the Sunnydale public housing community.
Julio Rigores is the Tenant Engagement System Manager at the Toronto Community Housing Corporation. TCHC has been co-leading the multi-phase transformation of the Regent Park social housing development.
Promising Practices in Inclusive Social Dynamics Paper
The National Initiative on Mixed-Income Communities
United States
