‘Affordable Housing Matters’ Podcast Debuts with First Episode Featuring UF’s Anne Ray

ST. AUGUSTINE — Creative Public Media today announced the launch of Affordable Housing Matters, a new podcast that pulls back the curtain on issues and challenges involved in solving the affordable housing crisis.

Hosted by Bill Lazar, executive director of the St. Johns Housing Partnership in St. Augustine, Fla., the series digs into the trends, strategies, and mindsets that face communities, housing leaders, the government, builders, developers and architects in creating and maintaining affordable housing.

The inaugural episode features Anne Ray, the manager of the Florida Housing Data Clearinghouse at University of Florida’s Shimberg Center for Housing Studies.

She directs the Center’s statewide Rental Market Study and has performed research on preservation of assisted rental housing, public housing, the housing needs of persons with disabilities, farmworker housing, and states’ implementation of the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit.

Previously, she worked for the Family Housing Fund in Minneapolis. Ms. Ray holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan and a master’s degree in urban planning and policy from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Affordable Housing Matters episodes are available anytime on the SJHP web site at www.sjhp.org and on PodBean at https://www.podbean.com/eas/pb-zrcrr-1773b4b.