S01 E02 Defining Attainability with Nkoyo Iyamba

The MultiGreen Podcast

Defining Attainability with Nkoyo Iyamba

Season 01 | Episode 02

In this episode, journalist Nkoyo Iyamba interviews Randy C. Norton, Founder and Chairman of MultiGreen. They discuss the current housing supply crisis and how MultiGreen is designing solutions for attainable, sustainable, and tech-enabled housing in Western states and beyond.

(0:46) US housing crisis features unaffordable rentals and unequal home ownership(2:24) Overview of the housing market’s supply-and-demand problem(3:20) MultiGreen’s focus on attainable, sustainable, and tech-enabled multi-family homes(4:27) Urban Land Institute’s definition of “workforce housing”(6:02) Ten markets with job growth and a housing supply gap(9:04) Limitations preventing the use of federal development funds(14:26) Despite opposition, research shows workforce housing raises property values(18:05) Defining housing as infrastructure would generate investment and capital(21:15) Building the first LEED Platinum multi-family project in New Mexico(25:16) Energy efficient designs in creating Net-zero outcomes(27:07) Incorporating high tech, user-friendly elements into the MultiGreen design(34:43) MultiGreen’s goal is ambitious, but only represents 1% of needed housing

Additional mentions State of the Nation’s Housing 2020 Report Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing StudiesNicole FriedmanDefining the Supply and Demand ProblemDefining Housing AttainabilityULIWorkforce Plus™Colorado SunNIMBYismAffordable Housing Increases Nearby Property ValuesLEED CertificationNet-zero Energy EfficiencyMicrogridsFiber OpticsMultiGreen’s Housing Goal

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