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Defining Affordable: A Housing Solutions Podcast

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Defining Affordable: A Housing Solutions Podcast

Jaime Albarelli and Robin Martinez

What If Stability Was Just The Starting Line?

July 07, 2026 12:07pm 28 min

Affordable housing creates stability. But what should come next?We've spent a lot of time discussing why homeownership has become increasingly difficult to achieve and what that means for wealth inequality in America. Bu...

The Cost of Going Backward: HUD's New Approach to Homelessness

June 23, 2026 1:55pm 41 min

HUD recently released its 2026 Continuum of Care (CoC) Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO), signaling a major shift in federal homelessness policy. In this special episode of Defining Affordable, Jaime and Robin examine...

If the Economy Is Booming, Why Does Everything Feel Harder?

June 16, 2026 1:24pm 39 min

In our last episode, Work vs. Wealth: Why Homeownership Keeps Moving Out of Reach, we explored the widening gap between wealth and work, making homeownership increasingly difficult to attain.In this follow-up conversatio...

Work Vs. Wealth: Why Homeownership Keeps Moving Out of Reach

June 09, 2026 5:17pm 1:02

For decades, homeownership was one of the primary ways Americans built wealth. Today, even people with good jobs and steady incomes are finding it increasingly difficult to buy a home.In this episode, Robin and Jaime exp...

Strong Opinions, Weak Facts: Debunking Homelessness Myths

May 26, 2026 6:31pm 43 min

What if everything you thought you knew about homelessness was wrong? Jaime and Robin tackle some of the most common — and most harmful — myths surrounding homelessness, using data and policy history to separate fact fro...

California Governor Candidates on Housing: What They’re Actually Proposing

May 19, 2026 1:26pm 42 min

California’s housing shortage and affordability problems are front and center in the 2026 governor’s race. In this episode of Defining Affordable, Jaime and Robin break down where the top candidates stand on housing affo...

Homelessness Starts With Housing

May 12, 2026 12:05pm 42 min

Homelessness Starts With HousingIn this episode of Defining Affordable, Jaime and Robin explore why the cost of housing is the single strongest predictor of homelessness — and how policy decisions helped create today’s c...

LIHTC: The gift card that builds affordable housing

May 05, 2026 11:11am 38 min

In this episode of Defining Affordable, Jaime and Robin unpack LIHTC—the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit program—and explain why it is the main way affordable housing gets built in the U.S. today.Using simple analogies, th...

How did we get here? A Housing History Part II

April 28, 2026 6:22pm 40 min

This episode of Defining Affordable traces the shift in U.S. housing policy from the 1950s through the 1990s, as urban renewal and highway projects displaced low-income communities and the Fair Housing Act of 1968 sought...

How did we get here? A Housing History Part I

April 21, 2026 11:55am 34 min

This episode of Defining Affordable traces the timeline of how today’s housing crisis was built—from New Deal–era policies that expanded access to homeownership and affordable rentals for some, while deliberately excludi...

The Foundation

April 14, 2026 11:25am 23 min

In this foundational episode of Defining Affordable, Robin and Jaime step back to unpack how California’s housing crisis became the norm—and why it shouldn’t be. They explore rising rents, stagnant wages, and the growing...

Defining Affordable Trailer

April 06, 2026 6:18pm 4 min

What does “affordable housing” actually mean—and why does it feel so out of reach?Hosted by Jaime and Robin—affordable housing industry professionals—Defining Affordable takes a clear, practical look at one of today’s mo...

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