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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Podcasts

Episode 165 Are We Here Yet?

Plus Orrin Evans Part II in The Jazz Room ‘If you have an idea for something you think would make the world a better place, don’t wait for someone else to do it.  Just don’t.  Just get started.’ CEO Kimmerly Nace is dedicated to changing the narrative on how we see...

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Episode 164 Are We Here Yet?

Plus Part I Orrin Evans in The Jazz Room Startup founders: today’s audio plat savoureux from the Innova802 crew focused on our guest Matt Cropp, executive director of the Vermont Employee Ownership Center (VEOC). We discussed why you need to consider your future exit...

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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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