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Understanding the housing affordability crisis - and what’s needed to fix it: Habitat for Humanity CEO

Around the world, affordable housing is becoming less and less easy to attain. Habitat for Humanity CEO Jonathan Reckford lays out in plain language the state of global housing, the barriers to affordability and the practical steps that can tackle this crisis, including the solutions this global housing organization is helping get into place. He also shares lessons from his unique career journey - one that includes talking himself into a job at an investment bank after college and later coaching the South Korean Olympic rowing team - and what he learned from the leaders who shaped him, including the late US president Jimmy Carter and his grandmother Millicent Fenwick, the fashion editor and former US representative.

Guests:

Jonathan Reckford

Chief Executive Officer, Habitat for Humanity (HFH) International

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Hosted by:

Linda Lacina

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