UnAffordable and UnSheltered

Are homelessness, and affordable housing in Arizona connected? Housing in the Phoenix area has become hard to afford. However, it's often the institutional barriers that keep people homeless. UnSheltered and UnAffordable podcasts explore the obstacles that can make surviving and thriving in the Valley a challenge.

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UnAffordable: The Balancing Act

Apartment construction site
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Luxury rentals construction site
Joanna Lucio, of the ASU School of Public Affairs
Joanna Lucio, of the ASU School of Public Affairs, says when zoning laws in residential areas restrict what kinds of housing can be built, that can create barriers to affordable housing.
Laura Pastor is the chair of Phoenix City Council's Planning and Economic Development subcommittee
Laura Pastor is the chair of Phoenix City Council's Planning and Economic Development subcommittee, a role which gives her major influence over the city's zoning decisions.
Mary Smith
Single mother Mary Smith recently moved into a new apartment in North Phoenix after spending years in and out of shelters and transitional housing.
Terry Benelli, executive director of LISC Phoenix
Terry Benelli, executive director of LISC Phoenix. Benelli says only a fraction of affordable housing that the city needs is being built because of lack of funding.
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Katherine Davis-Young

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When we talk about the issue of housing, we’re talking about so much more than building one home for one person. Housing is a balancing act among the people who need places to live, the developers who build it, the city that makes the rules, and even neighbors who already live in a place. In part three of this five-part series, Katherine Davis-Young explains, as demand for housing in Phoenix keeps rising, all of the obstacles in the way of housing are only getting more complicated, and affordable housing...that might be the most complicated of all.

 

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Producers
Katherine Davis-Young