Where We Go From Here

& Housing After Dark

Launched in 2022, our Substack Where We Go From Here provides a way for us to experiment with big housing ideas, nudge California housing in the right direction, and feature interesting and important ideas from clients, partners and the housing world. We launched the Podcast Housing After Dark in 2023, to better feature established and emerging housing leaders whose ideas and experience help move us forward as a housing community.

The Substack and the Podcast are primarily our way of contributing to the larger housing community. They are both aimed at housing professionals, or those who are working to become professionals in this space. 

But they also serve a purpose for Schafran Strategies. We feature work we do with our clients, if it serves their interests, and we use it to help potential clients understand our current thinking. The best client relationships are partnerships where we both see value in a project or approach, and this helps you see where we are coming from - and we we hopefully can go from here together.

Housing After Dark

Season 2 Highlights

Housing After Dark Episode 15: Ruby Bolaria Shifrin on Philanthropy's Role in Fighting our Housing Crisis by Alex Schafran

On the real and perceived risk of investment and how philanthropy can provide the risk embracing dollars to help institutions to know the difference

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Housing After Dark Episode 14: Paul Fordham on Homelessness, the Unhoused, and Funding by Alex Schafran

Why we need to bridge the homelessness / housing divide

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Housing After Dark Episode 13: Nikki Beasley on the Importance of Homeownership by Alex Schafran

Let's give BIPOC households a real choice in whether, when, and how to own or rent

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Season 1 Highlights

Housing After Dark Episode 8: The Insurance Crisis' Impact on Housing Production by Alex Schafran

The housing insurance crisis is more than just homeowners losing policies, it also impacts housing production

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Housing After Dark Episode 7: Talking Housing with Gloria Bruce by Alex Schafran

Reflections on tenants rights, affordable housing, and the homelessness/housing divide

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Housing After Dark Episode 5: Is the Future of Housing Finance Regional? by Alex Schafran

Bay Area Housing Finance Authority Director, Kate Hartley talks the history and future of this historic regional agency

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Where We Go From Here

Highlights

Building New Towns in California by Alex Schafran

How not to do it, and how to do it differently

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Housing's Missing Mirror by Alex Schafran

If housers want to lead us to a better housed future, we need a mirror, not just a spotlight

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Housing Tenure 101: A Where We Go From Here Explainer by Alex Schafran

The housing subject with the worst name is too important to keep ignoring

Read on Substack