Cross-sector Partnerships for Affordable Housing

While there is a lot of policy focus on creating affordable housing at transit-rich locations, actually doing it can require aligning transit agency plans – for a particular TOD or for a particular station-area – with the priorities of very different organizations, each with their own purposes and resources. For example: how about a transit agency partnering with a school district to build a middle school and affordable and workforce housing all on the same parcel – and all in walking distance to transit? Or a transit agency with a developable parcel working upfront with public and private funding partners to unlock even more affordable housing than originally scoped? What does it take at the senior leadership level and for those carrying out day-to-day work to align policy and workflows? To learn and build trust? Get the stories from projects in two different cities.

Eileen Higgins, Commissioner, District 5, Miami-Dade County, Miami, FL
Mara D’Angelo, Deputy Director, Transit-Oriented Development, Sound Transit, Seattle, WA
Moderator: Mariia Zimmerman, AICP, Strategic Advisor for Technical Assistance and Community Solutions, Office of the Secretary, US Department of Transportation, Washington, DC