Celebrating Black History Month: An Impact Real Estate Podcast revisit with Shola Olatoye.
In honor of Black History Month, the Impact Real Estate Podcast is revisiting interviews with some of our most impactful guests from the African American Community.
On this episode of the Impact Real Estate Podcast, brought to you by Jackson Lucas, we visit with Oakland’s former Director of Housing and Community Development and the current Chief Operating Officer at Eden Housing, 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 the Bay Area’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