READI 2.0: Economic Development and Housing in Indiana's Communities

Collaborative Efforts to Accelerate the Affordable Housing Supply in Kentucky

In this special edition, recorded live at the 2025 Kentucky Affordable Housing Conference, we explore collaborative strategies to accelerate housing supply across the region. Featuring Tara Johnson-Noem on Northern Kentucky’s “Home for All” initiative, Kristen Baker on the “Housing Our Future” strategy, and Abby Shelton on the Greater Owensboro Area Housing Collaborative, this episode highlights how data-driven planning, cross-sector collaboration, and community engagement are reshaping housing solutions in Kentucky and across the Ohio River.

READI 2.0: Economic Development and Housing in Indiana's Communities

The Indiana Economic Development Corporation launched READI in 2021 with $500 million in state appropriations to coordinate strategic investments to bring talent and economic growth to every region in the Hoosier state. Thanks to public, private, and nonprofit partners, that original investment has been leveraged to more than $12.6 billion for Indiana communities. Another $500 will be allocated as part of READI 2.0, focusing on quality of life, place, and opportunities. In this episode, we speak with Jim Rawlinson, director of READI, and Heidi Young, senior program manager, about how READI is driving economic development in every region of Indiana and what Kentucky can learn from its neighbor.

Permanent Supportive Housing: Part 3 | Elevate Estates

The Supportive Housing Institute is the flagship training series of the Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH). It is a comprehensive training for supportive housing development teams — a developer, a manager, and a supportive service provider — that wish to develop a Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) project. In this episode, the final installment of our series on PSH, we speak to Julie Wischer, executive director of the Elevate, who attended the Institute during the development of Elevate Estates, a 48-unit PSH facility for individuals who struggle to live independently because of a disability.

Permanent Supportive Housing: Part 2 | St. John Center & Sheehan Landing

The Supportive Housing Institute is the flagship training series of the Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH). It is a comprehensive training for supportive housing development teams, which include a developer, a manager, and a supportive service provider. In this episode, the second in our Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) series, we speak to Ra'Shann Martin, executive director of the St. John Center, who attended the Institute during the development of Sheehan Landing, an 80-unit PSH facility designed to address the unique needs of people who experience multiple, complex physical and mental disabilities. St. John Center has been providing scattered-site PSH since 2008, but Sheehan Landing is its first single-site PSH.

Permanent Supportive Housing: Part 1 | Corporation for Supportive Housing

The Supportive Housing Institute is the flagship training series of the Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH). It is a comprehensive training for supportive housing development teams, which include a developer, a manager, and a supportive service provider. They learn about capital financing, operating financing, supportive services dollars, best practices, fair housing, and much more. At the end of the curriculum, which takes about six months to complete, teams present their projects to a panel of funders to get feedback that strengthens their applications for funding. In this episode, we speak with Leah Werner, the director of the Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee team at CSH, to gain a better understanding of the Supportive Housing Institute and the role it has played in permanent supportive housing in Kentucky.