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