December 18, 2023· 40 min

A County in Maryland Came up With a New Way of Building Affordable Homes

Zachary Marks

Orality

Model

71%

Oral-dominant (speeches, podcasts, storytelling)

Speaker Breakdown

HostJoe Weisenthal(1,772 words)

M:29%

HostTracy Alloway(1,442 words)

M:29%

GuestZachary Marks(2,459 words)

M:27%

Oral Indicators

Agonistic36%

literally, completely, totally

Engagement67%

you, our, your

Memory Aids100%

listen, now, like

Repetition100%

like (82x), know (81x), housing (78x)

Parallelism92%

And I'm Tracy Alloway...., And every where everyone was b..., And if you have, you know, if ...

Sound Patterns71%

60 question(s), alliteration: "markets move", alliteration: "barclays brief"

Formulaic Phrases7%

you know what, i mean, if you will

Literate Indicators

Hedging10%

might, quite, maybe

Passive Voice6%

is impaired, been forced, was located

Abstract Nouns22%

investment, recommendation, moment

Subordination5%

because, while, though

Sentence Length38%

Avg: 14.5 words/sentence

Word Complexity48%

investment, analyze, anticipate

Academic Markers4%

according to

Impersonal Style33%

567 personal pronouns found

Descriptive Style100%

literally, completely, supply

Description

When people think of publicly funded housing, they tend not to think about modern-looking apartments with all kinds of amenities. But a county in Maryland is trying to completely reframe how we think about public housing. The Montgomery County Housing Authority has been a pioneer in thinking about what the government can do in terms of accelerating housing production, even when the private sector is pulling back due to higher rates. On this episode of the podcast, we speak with Zachary Marks, Senior Vice President of Real Estate at the Housing Opportunities of Commission of Montgomery County along with Paul Williams, the founder and executive director of the Center for Public Enterprise, about what the county is doing, and how the model can be applied elsewhere to create more affordable, abundant housing. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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