Abundance - A Metropolitan Abundance Project Podcast

Dec 19 2024 32 ep. 83 mins 31

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Welcome to Abundance, a Metropolitan Abundance podcast where we chat with the academics, researchers, and practitioners who inspire and inform our work.

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#32 - Jason Sorens on Unbundling Zoning

Dec 19 2024 52 mins

Welcome back to the Abundance Podcast! In this episode, M. Nolan Gray chats with Jason Sorens. Jason is a Senior Research Fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research. He received his Ph.D. in political science from Yale University. Jason has been active in efforts to liberalize land-use regulation in New Hampshire and was the principal investigator on the New Hampshire Z

#31 - Gary Winslett on Cost of Living

Dec 12 2024 62 mins

Welcome back to the Abundance Podcast! In this episode, M. Nolan Gray chats with Gary Winslett. Gary is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Middlebury College. He is a Senior Advisor for the Chamber of Progress and author of their Chamber's Democratic Cost-of-Living Agenda. For the last few years, he has been an advocate for more housing, particularly in Vermont. In thi

#30 - Christian Solorio on Arizona

Oct 17 2024 77 mins

Welcome back to the Abundance Podcast! In this episode, M. Nolan Gray chats with Christian Solorio. Solorio is an architect, affordable housing advocate, and former member of the Arizona legislature. He currently serves on the board for the Arizona Housing Coalition and Arizona Neighborhood Project. In this episode, they discuss the housing affordability challenges facing Phoenix,

#29 - Jake Berman on Lost Subways

Oct 10 2024 64 mins

Welcome back to the Abundance Podcast! In this episode, M. Nolan Gray and Ned Resnikoff chat with Jake Berman. Berman is a cartographer, artist, and lawyer. In this episode, they chat about his new book, The Lost Subways of North America: A Cartographic Guide to the Past, Present, and What Might Have Been. Stay connected with the Metropolitan Abundance Project on Twitter, Bluesky,

#28 - Colin Parent on San Diego

Oct 03 2024 65 mins

Welcome back to the Abundance Podcast! In this episode, M. Nolan Gray, Aaron Eckhouse, and Gloria Magallanes chat with Colin Parent. Parent is a council member in La Mesa and a candidate for California’s 79th Assembly District. He leads Circulate San Diego. Check out his campaign and recent research on the California Coastal Commission. In this episode, they chat about his expe

#27 - Anthony Breach on YIMBY in the UK

Sep 26 2024 104 mins

Welcome back to the Abundance Podcast! In this episode, M. Nolan Gray chats with Anthony Breach. He is an associate director of the Centre for Cities, the leading think tank dedicated to improving the economies of the UK's largest cities and towns. Check out some of his recent work devolution, tax reform, and planning reform. In this episode, they chat about the state of housin

#26 - Richard Kahlenberg on Economic Segregation

Sep 19 2024 88 mins

Welcome back to the Abundance Podcast! In this episode, M. Nolan Gray and Ned Resnikoff chat with Richard Kahlenberg. He is an education scholar, Director of the American Identity Project, and Director of Housing Policy at the Progressive Policy Institute. He also has a new book out: Excluded: How Snob Zoning, Nimbyism, and Class Bias Build the Walls We Don't See. In this epis

#25 - Anika Singh Lemar on Community Input

Aug 01 2024 51 mins

Welcome back to the Abundance Podcast! In this episode, M. Nolan Gray and Ned Resnikoff chat with Anika Singh Lemar. She is a Clinical Professor of Law at Yale Law School where she teaches clinics that represent affordable housing developers, tenants, homeowners, small businesses, community development financial institutions, fair housing advocates, and cooperatives. In this episod

#24 - Annemarie Gray on New York

Jul 29 2024 111 mins

Welcome back to the Abundance Podcast! In this episode, M. Nolan Gray and Brian Hanlon chat with Annemarie Gray. She is the Executive Director of Open New York, the state's leading grassroots pro-housing advocacy organization. In this episode, they prospects for YIMBY advocacy in New York City, both in the Big Apple and in Albany. Stay connected with the Metropolitan Abundance

#23 - Jessica Trounstine on Segregation

Jul 29 2024 97 mins

Welcome back to the Abundance Podcast! In this episode, M. Nolan Gray and Ned Resnikoff chat with Jessica Trounstine. She is the Centennial Chair and Professor of Political Science at Vanderbilt University and the author of Segregation by Design: Local Politics and Inequality in American Cities. In this episode, they chat about how US cities became so segregated, and what policymak