Erin Karpewicz on Housing and Community Development For All

About this episode

The episode discusses the importance of affordable housing and community development with Erin Karpewicz.

Housing is where everything else starts and when it gets too expensive, communities can start to break. In the latest episode of the Pittman and Friends podcast County Executive Steuart Pittman sits down with Erin Karpewicz, Executive Director of Arundel Community Development Services (ACDS), to get specific about how affordable housing and community development actually happen: who pays, how deals get structured, and why the market alone won’t build homes for every income level. We talk thro...

People in this episode

Host: Steuart Pittman

Guest: Erin Karpewicz

Topics covered

• affordable housing
• community development
• economic impact
• housing market
• income levels

Keywords

• housing
• community development
• affordability
• market structure
• income levels

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Arundel Community Development Services

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