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While Habitat for Humanity CEO
Jonathan Reckford was in Phoenix as a speaker for the
Wrigley Lecture Series, he stopped by the public radio station KJZZ to talk about the importance of affordable housing.
"Housing is complicated and expensive. It's hard to tackle," Reckford said in the segment. "The only real solutions are to get the public sector, the private sector and the nonprofit community working together on community transformation."
“What we’ve seen — and the data is very strong — is that mixed-income, mixed-use communities are the healthiest approach for everybody involved,” Reckford told the show's host Mark Brodie. Reckford went into more detail about affordable housing in his lecture, "
Housing for Inclusive and Equitable Cities," sponsored by the
Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability at Arizona State University.