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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