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What can be done about the affordable housing crisis? – with Laurie Goodman and Erskine Bowles

You Might Be Right·Baker School of Public Policy and Public Affairs at University of Tennessee·17 July 2026·50 min

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Erskine Bowles, former White House Chief of Staff, and Laurie Goodman, an Institute fellow and founder of the Housing Finance Policy Center at the Urban Institute, join Governors Bredesen and Haslam to discuss the affordable housing crisis. Goodman walks the Governors through a range of zoning and financing policy considerations, while Bowles discusses his work to develop naturally occurring affordable housing – known as NOAHs – in his hometown of Charlotte and how their unique model could be replicated in other cities.