Abundance - A Metropolitan Abundance Project Podcast Nolan Gray

In this episode, ⁠ M. Nolan Gray⁠⁠ chats with William Steichen and Trevor Stockinger, two of the coauthors on a brand new California YIMBY ⁠report⁠: The Impact of Fees: Rethinking Local revenues for More Multifamily Housing.

Over the past semester, Will, Trevor, and four others served as California YIMBY Research Fellows as part of their work toward a graduate degree.

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Welcome back to the Abundance Podcast! In this episode, M. Nolan Gray chats with Anthony Gill. Anthony is an economic development professional and the write of Spokane Rising, an urbanist blog focused on ways make Spokane a better place to live. They’re joined in this episode by Robyn Leslie, the director for strategic partnerships at California YIMBY. 

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Welcome back to the Abundance Podcast! In this episode, M. Nolan Gray chats with Sarah Karlinsky. Sarah is the Research Director at the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at UC Berkeley where she leads the development of the center’s research agenda. They’re joined in this episode by Robyn Leslie, the director for strategic partnerships at California YIMBY.

In this episode, they chat about Sarah’s new report, “Structured for Success: Reforming Housing Governance in California and the Bay Area.”

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Welcome back to the Abundance Podcast! In this episode, M. Nolan Gray and Ned Resnikoff chat with Megan Kimble.  Megan is an investigative journalist and the author of Unprocessed. A former executive editor at The Texas Observer, Kimble has written about housing, transportation, and urban development for The New York Times, Texas Monthly, The Guardian, and Bloomberg CityLab. She lives in Austin, Texas. In this episode, they discuss her new book, City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways.

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In this episode, Ned Resnikoff chats with Alexander Sahn. He is a Thomas J. Pearsall Fellow and an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where he studies inequality in political participation, representation, and public policy, especially subnational governments in the United States. He was previously a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at Princeton University and received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. They discuss public engagement, exclusionary zoning, and civil service reform.

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This week, Nolan Gray and Ned Resnikoff chat with Stan Oklobdzija.

Stan is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Tulane University and the Director of the Center for Public Policy Research at the Murphy Institute. His research focuses on housing policy, specifically how voters conceive of housing markets and how these perceptions influence the policies that local governments pursue. He previously served as Research Director for California YIMBY. Oklobdzija holds a PhD in Political Science from the He of California, San Diego and a Master's Degree in Public Policy from the University of Southern California. Find him on Twitter.

In this episode, they chat about the politics of YIMBY, the folk economics and housing, and New Orleans.

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