Jackson Lucas Impact Real Estate Podcast with Shola Olatoye

On this episode of the Impact Real Estate Podcast, brought to you by Jackson Lucas, we visit with Oakland’s Director of Housing and Community Development, Shola Olatoye. Shola guides us on how she went from aspiring professor to leading the largest housing authority in the United States to making her way to the West Coast and taking on Oakland’s housing challenges head-on.

EPISODE NOTES:

00:46 - The Instant Impact 

- Decentralizing of tech industry 

- Diversity hiring 

- Who has the best burritos? 

15:08 - A Bay Area newcomer 

17:05 - Notice of funding availability 

18:50 - The Streets of Oakland 

22:25 - Challenges of a new role

25:54 - An update on the Oakland A’s?

27:50 - An Equal-apolis

30:23 - Daughter of an immigrant 

34:30 - Path into real estate 

45:10 - Contrast between NY and OAK

48:00 - Compassion and change 

50:10 - The Hot Seat presented by KK Reset