Vital City After Hours with Jamie Rubin
Vital City After Hours with Jamie Rubin
Podcast Description
Vital City After Hours with Jamie Rubin will explore the issues facing New York City with an emphasis on the intersection of politics and policy. It is hosted by Jamie Rubin, who has more than three decades of experience working on affordable housing, disaster recovery, major infrastructure projects and clean energy in the public, private and nonprofit sectors. Jamie is currently chief investment officer at Aligned Climate Capital and board chair of the New York City Housing Authority. Each episode will feature lively discussions with Vital City authors and others who are working to create a thriving New York City. This show is for anyone who cares about the greatest city in the world and wants to see effective solutions to today’s most challenging problems.
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Content Themes
The podcast explores themes centered on urban policy, affordable housing, and infrastructure challenges in New York City. Episodes cover specific issues like government procurement inefficiencies and the impact of corruption on urban projects, featuring experts who contribute insights into the complexities of New York's political landscape.
It’s all bigger in New York City: personalities, problems, solutions. Jamie Rubin takes listeners behind the scenes for analysis, insight, and gossip with decision-makers and experts. From his wide-ranging experience on Wall Street, in City Hall, in Albany, and in Washington, D.C., Jamie knows how to ask the right people the toughest questions — on topics from housing to climate change to subway rats – and work with them in real time to identify solutions for NYC and beyond.
A Vital City audio project.
For more solutions-oriented thinking on urban life, visit the Vital City website at https://www.vitalcitynyc.org/.
As we gear up for the mayoral election, Bill Lipton, the former Lead Organizer and Organizing Director of The Working Families Party, shares how the party in its early days defied the status quo, how he and his team learned to make effective change by working across party lines and how politicians at every level of government — even the new mayor — can prioritize affordability AND climate politics in the coming year.
For more solutions-oriented thinking on urban life, visit the Vital City website at https://www.vitalcitynyc.org/.
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