On this episode of the Impact Real Estate Podcast, we're truly honored to have a legendary voice, scholar and influencer in the housing space -- Kent Colton, President of the Colton Housing Group. We have an enlightening and informative conversation about the current state of housing affordability and how Kent's work with the Ivory Prize of Housing Affordability is blazing a new trail in different housing categories. We also talk housing policy, about the good old days, and Kent also offers up the best answer to date in the Hot Seat, presented by KK Reset.

We say this a lot, but truly, this is an episode you do not want to miss.

EPISODE NOTES

02:10 - The Ivory Prize for housing affordability

05:13 - Removing barriers in regulation

07:06 - Factory-built housing

11:30 - Making housing work for renters

13:02 - Home Partners of America

14:20 - From Utah to MIT

15:52 - The housing shortage stage and other trends

21:08 - Real divisions

24:00 - The good old days? Coming out of WWII ...

29:57 - The government's role

31:55 - Look around your community

35:22 - The Hot Seat presented by KK Reset

Kent serves as a Senior Research Fellow at the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies and is the President of the Colton Housing Group. He has 30+ years of experience as a housing scholar and expert in the field of mortgage finance and affordable housing policy.

He was the CEO of the National Association of Home Builders, a position he held from 1984 to 1999. He previously served as an Executive Vice President of Freddie Mac for Policy, Planning and Economic Research. He was a member of the Millennial Housing Commission, and Staff Director of the President's Commission on Housing. He was a White House Fellow in 1974-1975. He was a Professor at Brigham Young University's Graduate School of Management, and Associate Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Urban Studies and Planning.

Kent has written numerous articles and books on housing finance, housing policy, the secondary mortgage market, and a range of management issues, and is the author of Housing in the Twenty-First Century: Achieving Common Ground.