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Podcast: ChangeMakers with Katie Goar
Episode: Episode 111 | Part Two: Marion Mollegen McFadden, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development, HUD
Description: In Part 2, Katie Goar continues her conversation with Marion McFadden, the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development at HUD. Marion highlights a wide array of HUD programs, from homelessness prevention to affordable housing creation, and discusses their recent accomplishments. She emphasizes the success of HUD's Pro Housing program, which empowers communities to identify and tackle local barriers to housing development. Marion also discusses innovative housing solutions, such as manufactured housing and adaptive reuse, which are helping to address the nation's affordable housing crisis. She touches on the unique challenges rural communities face in securing federal resources and...