GAME OF DRONES

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CREATING SUCCESSFUL COMMUNITIES
Breaking Ground in the Affordable Housing Dilemma
Housing costs vary greatly across the United States,
but a serious lack of affordable housing affects
low-income and low-wage workers in every corner
of the country. According to the National Housing Trust
Fund, in order to close the gap between the swollen demand
for affordable housing and the limited supply, the U.S.
would need to add 4.5 million units affordable to extremely
low income households.
At first blush, that sounds like a daunting task. But, “with
funding and creativity, anything is possible,” Thomas E.
Nutt-Powell, owner of Capital Needs Unlimited, told “The
Suit.”
also directed the Manufactured Housing Research Program
of the Harvard-MIT Joint Center for Urban Studies. In addition,
Nutt-Powell has worked with agencies in some of the
country’s most devastated housing markets including Detroit,
Las Vegas, Pittsburgh, Atlanta, Chicago, Washington,
DC, Boston, Phoenix and East St. Louis.
Nutt-Powell explained, “I like providing practical and
sustainable solutions today for tomorrow’s pressing housing
needs. The key is to get the community to work together
to support quality, healthy neighborhoods with a range of
housing options so that families of all income levels have
an opportunity to thrive. But our job doesn’t stop there.
Based in Brookline, MA, Capital Needs Unlimited is a
consortium of national planning and development experts
dedicated to providing fully-integrated long-term community
solutions. Working hand-in-hand with clients, Capital
Needs Unlimited assists in the areas of community development,
housing and community transformation, leveraged
financing, mixed income communities, capital needs assessment
and asset management.
The highly specialized and acclaimed Nutt-Powell is a nationally
renowned planning professional with nearly three
decades of experience in the public, assisted and conventional
housing markets. Nutt-Powell has served on the faculty
of MIT’s prestigious School of Architecture and Planning,
where he headed the Master in City Planning program. He
Also important is to help people transition from renters to
home-owners. Many have no idea how to handle things like
a dripping faucet or running toilet.”
With so much left to do and so many ideas still to share,
the accomplished Nutt-Powell, says his greatest success is
yet to come.
We all have to live somewhere. Thanks to Nutt-Powell,
scores of people now actually do have somewhere nice to
live that they can afford.
www.housing-solutions.com
THE SUIT MAGAZINE - DEC / JAN 2014