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Client Press Release 09.17.24

SMG Client Breaking Housing Matters Launches first fundraising effort In America today people without a permanent place to live are now at risk of arrest for sleeping outside in public spaces.  BHM believes this is an intolerable solution to the national housing...
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Press Release 03.08.24

Breaking Housing Matters Launches Pilot effort for Rutland, VT  Courtesy of Breaking Housing Matters   Breaking Housing Matters  Contact: Scott M. Graves  978-884-6596  scott@smgravesassociates.com  www.breakinghousingmatters.org  Introduction by BHM Vermont...
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Client Spotlight: Op Ed on Housing from Peter de Krassel

Breaking Housing Matters  An Op Ed by Peter de Krassel Click on image for our interview with the author Courtesy of Breaking Housing Matters The Answer to Vermont’s “Underwater” Property Market  Peter G de Krassel Vermont’s housing has priced itself beyond the reach...
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Essays From an Artist

The Big 'D' in De-Centralize Used by permission of authorScott M. Graves is Founder of M the Media Project and SMGraves Associates.  As contributing writer to M, he writes under the series Essays from An Artist andDemocratic Capitalism.  He formerly wrote under the...
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Press Release 02.09.24

SMGraves Associates Engages Breaking Housing Matters  Courtesy of Breaking Housing Matters Breaking Housing Matters, an Arizona-based 501C(3) organization that is dedicated to delivering affordable housing profitably has engaged SMGraves Associates to launch the first...
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Episode 138 Are We Here Yet?

Breaking Housing Matters  plus Kurt Elling in The Jazz Room  Courtesy of Breaking Housing Matters With a background in housing policy, law and international business, author and business leader Peter de Krassel has witnessed the long arc of bad housing policy across...
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Podcasts

Episode 168 Are We Here Yet?

Oct 23, 2024

Venture Capital and new business in the Berkshires of MassachusettsOur guest, Andrew Fitch is Communications Manager for Lever, a Venture Capital Source pioneered by founders and government in the city of North Adams, MA. The last decade or more has seen a resurgence...

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Episode 167 Are We Here Yet?

Oct 17, 2024

How we Leverage Open Source for a Better Society ‘Open Source is a service to others without a clear or obvious return...’ Kendall Fortney is an artist and designer based in Vermont who is currently the Program Director for UVM's VERSO the open source program centered...

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Recent Appearances

Resilient Economics of Housing Density

by Dane Carlson & The Econ Dev Show

https://share.fireside.fm/episode/RNur4rno+NnTmUYD-

Getting Past Covid, Economic Development, Podcasting

by The Soft Serve Podcast

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-soft-serve-podcast/id1428770328?i=1000577887510

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