What's the world we want to live in?

It's actually within our ability to make it better.

And it's within our ability to make the affordable housing prices better.

But we just all have to really think and ask ourselves,

what is the built environment that we want to live in?

Welcome to the Fine Home Building Pro Talk podcast, a regular discussion with building industry

professionals. Today I'm joined by designer Marianne Coussado. This is Senior Editor Patrick McComb.

You can find Fine Home Building Pro Talk

Podcast and the original Fine Home Building podcast at findhomebuilding.com slash podcast. You can leave

feedback and ask questions there too. Marianne, it is such a pleasure to have you on the show and

nice to meet you. Thanks for being here. Thanks for having me. This is fun. For folks who don't know,

can you please, it's probably a long list, but can you please explain what you do?

Sure. I'm a designer. I practice in building and design and development of disaster housing, typically at the moment in Opportunity Zones.

And I'm also on the faculty at the School of Architecture at the University of Notre Dame,

where I teach courses on housing, specifically housing and social justice,

as well as we're just in the process of launching a new initiative that I'm the director of on housing and community regeneration.

Can you briefly explain to me what that means?

Absolutely.

So we're within the School of Architecture at Notre Dame.

We practice and look at how place influences economies, society, outcomes of how people live in cities.

And one of the things we're looking very closely at is the connection of place and the physical environment, the built environment, to how we live and our settlement patterns.

So we're looking, we work in the Midwest, because that's where Notre Dame is located,

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