Joe Urban | Sam Newberg, Urbanist


Affordable Housing – We Get to Carry Each other

Dateline: 10:07 pm December 18, 2021 Filed under:

(the following is a speech I gave as part of the Public Speaking Rock Stars course I took earlier this year at CBRE) I find it funny that one of my favorite memories from my college years is about affordable housing. I was at the Jimmy Carter Work Project, in Berea, Kentucky, standing in the kitchen of a nearly finished new Habitat for Humanity house watching Lewis Coffey turn on his kitchen tap for the first time. I was one of 25 volunteers that arrived on a Monday to a concrete slab and we built a house in 5 days.…