Create the Village

<p>Impact investors provide the last dollars to unlock attainable housing.</p> <p>Many promising housing projects get close to the finish line and then stall because the last dollars aren’t there. This episode looks at...

<p>Developers don’t just need better plans, they need workflows that line up from plan to permit.</p> <p>Homebuilding still runs on disconnected files and manual redlines. Design changes don’t reach sales, purchasing...

<p>Lasting change in communities starts with the right connections.</p> <p>In this week’s Create the Village, Kareem Brantley, Principal - Integral Florida, hosts a powerful conversation with two leaders driving equity...

<p>𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝗳 𝘀𝗺𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝗺𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲—𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝗿 𝗿𝗲𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗻𝘀?</p> <p>In episode 2 of 𝘊𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦...

<p>Art and culture aren’t just creative expressions — they’re powerful tools for building communities that thrive.</p> <p>In this episode of Create the Village, renowned artist and scholar Dr. Fahamu Pecou explores how...

<p>A year ago, we published an episode of Create the Village entitled, “Has ‘Infrastructure Week’ Finally Arrived?” There was plenty of conversation, rolling into a national election, that supported the idea that the...

<p>In the wake of hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005, Dr. Calvin Mackie was appointed to the 33-member board of the Louisiana Recovery Authority. In 2009, he was appointed to the Louisiana Council on the Social Status...

<p>Sherri Powell founded the Rural America Chamber of Commerce in 2021. She's working to empower rural entrepreneurs and to advocate for their economies and communities, and she's not stopping there. Not afraid to dig...

<p>Deidre Woollard, an Editor at Million Acres, a division of Motley Fool, returns to Create The Village to discuss the ongoing market confusion and looming problems facing the real estate and banking industries and...

<p>President and chief executive officer of the YMCA of Metro Atlanta, Lauren Koontz, discusses her leadership in the midst of a worldwide pandemic and period of national racial awareness.</p>

<p>This week’s episode of Create the Village is a potent conversation about some of the issues of inequality facing the U.S. and some of the policy initiatives designed to raise awareness. Linda Goler Blount is...

<p>Mary Means is an award-winning community planner and innovator who has led the movement in Main Street Revitalization for more than four decades. She has been dubbed the Queen of Main Street by her colleagues and...

<p>Guest: John O’Callaghan, President and CEO of Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership (ANDP). Atlanta is famous for the ebb and flow of its real estate market. And, while some parts of the metro area are...

This week's episode of Create the Village asks the question, “Are we living through a temporary bubble where low-income children stop attending school or underperform, or are we seeing a trend that will live with us for...

<p>Egbert Perry, CEO of Integral, and Hollis Towns, VP of local news at Gannett, discuss the recent Georgia special election, the assault on the US Capitol, and what the public can expect from media companies during...