In this special edition, recorded live at the 2025 Kentucky Affordable Housing Conference, we explore collaborative strategies to accelerate housing supply across the region. Featuring Tara Johnson-Noem on Northern Kentucky’s “Home for All” initiative, Kristen Baker on the “Housing Our Future” strategy, and Abby Shelton on the Greater Owensboro Area Housing Collaborative, this episode highlights how data-driven planning, cross-sector collaboration, and community engagement are reshaping housing solutions in Kentucky and across the Ohio River.

The Indiana Economic Development Corporation launched READI in 2021 with $500 million in state appropriations to coordinate strategic investments to bring talent and economic growth to every region in the Hoosier state. Thanks to public, private, and nonprofit partners, that original investment has been leveraged to more than $12.6 billion for Indiana communities. Another $500 will be allocated as part of READI 2.0, focusing on quality of life, place, and opportunities. In this episode, we speak with Jim Rawlinson, director of READI, and Heidi Young, senior program manager, about how READI is driving economic development in every region of Indiana and what Kentucky can learn from its neighbor.

The Supportive Housing Institute is the flagship training series of the Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH). It is a comprehensive training for supportive housing development teams — a developer, a manager, and a supportive service provider — that wish to develop a Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) project. In this episode, the final installment of our series on PSH, we speak to Julie Wischer, executive director of the Elevate, who attended the Institute during the development of Elevate Estates, a 48-unit PSH facility for individuals who struggle to live independently because of a disability.