Creating Vibrant, Community-Oriented Housing with Eli Spevak

Regenerative Real Estate Podcast
Written By Neal Collins (he/him)

Eli Spevak has been developing affordable housing communities in Oregon for over 20 years, starting as a volunteer construction supervisor with Habitat for Humanity. In 2006, he launched Orange Splot, LLC to build new models of community-oriented, affordable, green housing development – ideally within an easy bike ride of his house.

Eli was awarded a Loeb Fellowship in Advanced Environmental Studies at the Harvard GSD, co-founded www.accessorydwellings.org, co-founded Portland for Everyone, and now serves on Portland’s Planning and Sustainability Commission.

In this episode of The Regenerative Real Estate Podcast, Eli gets into his evolution of his career and his developments. This is a must listen for anyone wanting to live or development community-oriented projects!

SHOW NOTES

  • Eli grew up in Washing DC to parents that were early adopters of solar panels

  • He headed west to find good backpacking and ended up working in affordable housing construction and financing once settling in Portland

  • Eli used his student loans to buy a property that he lived in a community-setting

  • Orange Splot got it's name from Daniel Pinkwater’s book The Orange Splot

  • Eli has experimented with different housing alternatives that are bigger than a tent but smaller than a conventional house.

  • Orange Splot has now built several pocket neighborhoods with Cully Green as the latest

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Neal Collins (he/him)

Neal is the co-founder of Latitude, a regenerative-focused real estate company that works with change agents across North America. His work has brought him around the globe across three-continents as a business leader, consultant, and project manager. He has a dynamic background that combines sustainability with investment analysis and marketing and communications. He is the host of The Regenerative Real Estate Podcast, and is a public speaker, author, and father. He holds a Bachelors in Agriculture Economics, a Masters in Sustainable Development, and is Living Future Accredited.

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