i work on housing investment, people investment, and municipal policy more generally. plus the systems that tie them together.
most of my work sits somewhere between planning and implementation, where ideas both take shape and fall apart.
that usually looks like helping projects move from concepts to something that can be funded, approved, and built. it also looks like working inside systems with differing priorities and working endlessly to make them clearer, more consistent, easier to navigate, and more equitable.
a lot of my work is in coordination.
between systems, between teams, between agencies, and between people - all needing to line up just enough to make something possible.
i also spend a lot of time growing numb to large numbers, designing and running funding processes that have determined how well over $100 million of public resources was used more equitably.
a lot of the work is deciding what matters most - and making sure people can actually understand it. setting criteria, helping people through processes, reimagining how we do things, and working through tradeoffs.
some of my work is more immediate.
during the pandemic, that meant helping create and stand up large-scale tenant support and housing stability programs - figuring out how to support people immediately while ensuring systems are flexible enough to hold up over time.
other parts of my work are slower.
thinking through where policies connect (or don’t), where they are in competition and/or friction, and where small changes can make things work better not just once but consistently.
i tend to be involved in work that’s less visible, whether it’s shaping how projects are structured, leveraging coordination between systems to better outcomes, allocating resources, (re)designing programs, or just putting together new pieces over time.
the work isn’t always clean. it’s not even always linear. a lot of it involves tradeoffs, constraints, and constant iteration.
most of the time it’s just about helping things move forward, even when the path isn’t obvious.