Urban Planning

“[Trees] also mitigate urban heat islands. … They’re very important with intercepting rain and stormwater in order to slow down runoff and reduce the possibilities of flooding,” says Dean Frederick Steiner of the Weitzman School of Design.

“At the core of this, we have a housing affordability problem, which is distinctly related to the housing supply problem. But when we think of solutions, we really have to center the affordability issues,” says Vincent Reina of the Weitzman School of Design.

Vincent Reina of the Weitzman School of Design discusses a bipartisan affordable housing bill that includes dozens of provisions to lower prices and increase housing supply.

Speaking about Habitat for Humanity, Vincent Reina of the Weitzman School of Design says, “They can still be true to their core mission, which is advancing homeownership opportunities, but they are also acknowledging that we need a diverse set of housing solutions to really meet the needs of individual.”

Vincent Reina of the Weitzman School of Design comments on the price of housing, saying, “By virtue of kind of decreasing the supply of the normal rental housing stock, you're essentially creating more demand for the existing units that are there.”