Creating Vibrant, Community-Oriented Housing with Eli Spevak
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
