Heritage and Affordable Housing with Graham Cubitt

On this episode, we are exploring the connection between heritage conservation and affordable housing with Graham Cubitt. Graham Cubitt is an affordable housing developer. Having led over 20 projects creating 1,000+ homes with Indwell as Director of Projects & Development, Graham helped launch Flourish in 2021 – a not-for-profit development services company that deploys Indwell's accumulated experience in creating affordable housing and social-purpose real estate projects. Roughly half of Graham's experience is in adaptive-reuse projects, including numerous heritage buildings. Graham has also become a Canadian leader in developing projects to Passive House energy performance standards. Timestamps (00:00) Introduction (9:53) Financing Heritage as Affordable Housing (24:46) Barriers to a Heritage approach to Affordable Housing (31:10) The Role of Designation (33:31) Connecting Heritage and Affordable Housing