Affordable Housing: Understanding Local and Global Approaches with Anya Brickman Raredon

Drawing from her experience in over 20 countries, Anya Brickman Raredon will share examples of housing ecosystem analyses that have led to the development of programs, policies, and projects to increase access and affordability of housing around the world. Whether in the US, an emerging economy, or a post-disaster environment, successful housing markets arise when the underlying value chains of supply and demand are synchronized to respectively produce houses (supply) and finance (demand) at compatible price points. Anya will describe how the Affordable Housing Institute uses a practical, rigorous, and comprehensive methodology to understand and evaluate a local housing market, identify key levers for change, and to design and implement new paradigm solutions for urgent affordable housing and urban development challenges.
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Anya Brickman Raredon
President, Affordable Housing Institute

Since joining the Affordable Housing Institute in 2013, Anya has helped grow AHI into a dynamic organizational platform with global reach and impact. In addition to her day-to-day leadership and mentoring of the team, Anya leads AHI's work in the formalization and redevelopment of informal settlements and post-disaster urban areas, as well as research into how the interconnection of physical, legal, financial, economic, and social systems can be leveraged to provide stable and permanent housing solutions for displaced populations. Her work at AHI has also included facilitation and strategic planning with affordable housing entities in both the US and abroad; the design of affordable housing strategies, analysis of housing affordability, and mapping of housing value chains in multiple countries; and the development of financial models to provide access to housing finance for low-income families.

She received a Masters in City Planning from MIT in 2011 and a BA from Yale in 2004 with Honors in Architecture. Anya first visited Yestermorrow at the age of 5 when her mother was designing their house renovation as part of the Home Design/Build course. After developing a professional interest in vernacular architecture she returned to Yestermorrow for a summer internship in 2002, and then lived in Warren from 2004-2006 while working with Jim Edgcomb and Jeff Schoellkopf.