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'Your City Could Be Better': How Austin is Succeeding at Affordable Housing — Presented By City Cast Pittsburgh

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Nikki Devon warns other cities: 'We wanted to hold onto our small, weird town identity and we got caught slipping' on housing.
David Floss interviews Nikki Devon, host of City Cast Austin, to explore how Austin, Texas is building more affordable housing than any other U.S. city through programs like 'Affordability Unlocked' and the HOME initiative, yet still faces a severe crisis as growth outpaces supply. They discuss the trade-offs with developers, political factors, and lessons for other cities.

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Austin is building, but it still is not building enough.

Austin's housing crunch is the center of the story: a city growing fast, still short on housing for middle- and lower-income residents, and somehow still producing more affordable housing than any other American city.

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Why Austin can build more affordable housing than any other American city, and why that still isn't enough.

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