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Can Philadelphia develop our way out of an affordable housing crisis? The Citizen gathered experts on the matter to work out the answer to that very big question.
The panel of experts included:
Mo Rushdy, a managing partner for the urban lifestyle developments firm the Riverwards Group, chair of the Philadelphia Accelerator Fund, head of the Building Industry Association, a board member of Land Bank and a member of Mayor Cherelle Parker’s transition team.
Leslie Smallwood-Lewis, COO and co-founder of Mosaic Development Partners, a Philadelphia-based, minority-certified, commercial real estate development and project management company that focuses on the ground-up development and adaptive reuse of commercial properties in underserved urban communities.
Richard Kahlenberg, the author or editor of 18 books, including Excluded: How Snob Zoning, NIMBYism and Class Bias Build the Walls We Don’t See.
Urban policy specialist and writer Diana Lind, who publishes on urban development in her Substack The New Urban Order and in The Citizen. She’s the author of Brave New Home: Our Future in Smarter, Simpler, Happier Housing. Lind moderated the event.
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