Cameron Lapoint News Today

The building industry is slow to change. But three Yale alumni are finding ways to make changes on the margins and in the process offer solutions that aren’t easy to ignore.

Rents have skyrocketed in some places over the last couple of years. Plus, high mortgage rates mean most homeowners are stuck where they are.

A lack of affordable housing is exacerbating homelessness and hobbling economic competitiveness, yet efforts to build new housing regularly meet NIMBY pushback. Three Yale SOM alumni tackle the tough challenge of getting to yes.