08/30/2026
Atticus LeBlanc continues his conversation with affordable housing developer and nonprofit leader Marc Pollack, focusing on how New Orleans’ long-standing mix of duplexes, ADUs, and shared housing shows the value of density and walkable, pre–World War II neighborhood patterns that Atlanta often resists due to NIMBYism.
Pollack argues there is no single affordable housing solution, citing approaches like preservation, mixed-income housing, modular and container construction, and shared housing, and emphasizes that progress requires education, policy work, and especially capital.
He describes EQ Housing Advisors’ goal of attracting market-rate investors to preserve workforce housing through self-imposed long-term affordability restrictions, noting investments in 15 projects totaling 2,000 units with $2 million. He discusses challenges engaging institutional capital and using pilots to prove models, then closes with rapid-fire personal favorites.
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