House Party Podcast

What role can AI play in real estate underwriting? How does that impact housing affordability? Learn about how Arx is  empowering real estate professionals to instantly analyze entire markets to identify the best investment and development deals. You’ll hear from Tomas and Hernan Garcia, the platform’s co-founders, and their vision for how Arx will help boost housing supply by making the underwriting process for land and building projects faster.

What if we re-imagined real estate development and put communities in the driver’s seat? Frolic, a new kind of developer, takes the cooperative housing model and adds an innovative twist. Learn about how Frolic started, its impact so far, and where it’s going next.

How can we help those most in need find rental housing? What role can community-based organizations and property managers play in doing so? Housing Connector is bringing together these key players into a user-friendly technology platform to help low income and vulnerable populations get connected to affordable housing.

What happens when banks don’t provide mortgages to  home buyers who are purchasing very inexpensive homes? John Green and the Blackstar Stability team set out to find a way to support the families caught in these predatory lending relationships and empower equitable ownership outcomes by transitioning these loans into traditional financial products.

How can we support the most vulnerable populations in our community when they experience homelessness? Impact Justice’s Homecoming Project takes a popular idea – home sharing - and applies it to a non-traditional population – formerly incarcerated individuals exiting the justice system.

How do zoning rules affect housing affordability? Hear about the effort to digitize, demystify, and democratize those 30,000 different zoning codes with the National Zoning Atlas – the first-ever effort to compile this information at a national scale.