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Housing is too expensive. Our communities are too unequal and too segregated. We’re not even remotely prepared for climate change, which is already here. Passionate people and organizations come up with smart, workable answers to these problems. But a diverse set of entrenched political divides keep us from realizing those solutions. Join practitioner, researcher and writer Alex Schafran once a month for the latest on the past, present and future of housing, planning and urban development. Guests include housing practitioners, researchers, elected officials and more. Let’s all work together towards a better housed California. https://alexschafran.substack.com/ alexschafran.substack.com
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Signup to Generate a PitchHousing is too expensive. Our communities are too unequal and too segregated. We’re not even remotely prepared for climate change, which is already here. Passionate people and organizations come up with smart, workable answers to these problems. But a diverse set of entrenched political divides keep us from realizing those solutions.
Housing After Dark is hosted by Alex Schafran. The show has published 22 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Housing After Dark Episode 24: CalAIM in Action - When Health Meets Housing" (30 September 2025, 54 minutes), "Housing After Dark Episode 23: A Report Out From the International Social Housing Festival" (23 August 2025, 63 minutes), and "Housing After Dark Episode 21: Magda Maaoui on Lessons for American Housers: Why France and the US are More Similar Than We Think" (10 June 2025, 65 minutes).
Housing After Dark publishes roughly monthly, with episodes averaging 55 minutes across 22 episodes.
Booking probability for Housing After Dark is 18%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Housing After Dark requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Housing After Dark's contact route on record: public web form.
The strongest fits for Housing After Dark are Housing & Urban Planning and Property Management & Appraisal. Housing After Dark has a government audience.
Alex Schafran hosts Housing After Dark, a government podcast with 22 episodes published.
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<p>Jonathan Fearn is someone I’ve gotten to know slowly over the past five years the old fashioned way—by seeing him at housing events. Jonathan is a Senior Vice President of Real Estate Development at Oakland’s own...

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<p>Today’s episode is about housing innovation, or really about the women and the organizations who help support innovation wherever it happens. My guests, Jenna Louie from Ivory Innovations and Michelle Boyd from...

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<p>Welcome to Housing After Dark, I’m your host, Alex Schafran. Today’s guest is Warren Logan, a planner and activist who has worked for city agencies on different sides of the Bay. He is now a candidate for political...

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<p>In today’s episode, we feature one of the most important sectors in housing, housing journalists. I think it’s safe to say that most people, even semi-grizzled academics turned housing professors like yours truly...

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<p>Every episode of this podcast is special and everybody who appears on the podcast means something to me, either personally or through the work that I do. But this episode is a bit different because for the first time...
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