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<p><strong><a href="https://evepicker.com/choose-your-own-rent/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BE SURE TO SEE THE SHOWNOTES AND LISTEN TO THIS EPISODE HERE.</a></strong></p> <p><strong>Eve Picker:</strong> [00:00:13] Hi there, thanks so much for joining me today for the latest episode of Impact Real Estate Investing.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Eve:</strong> [00:00:19] My guest today is Thibault (Tee-bo) Manekin, the founder and CEO of Seawall Development. Seawall is rolling out the red carpet for teachers. They are building high quality, affordable housing, which in itself is a big task. Layer that with the inclusionary design process they employ and the fact that they are creating this housing by restoring large and stunning vacant buildings and seawall is altogether fantastic.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Eve:</strong> [00:00:55] Be sure to go to evepicker.com to find out more about Thibault on the show notes page for this episode. And be sure to sign up for my newsletter so you can access information about impact real estate investing and get the latest news about the exciting projects on my crowdfunding platform, Small change.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Eve:</strong> [00:01:15] Hi Thibault, I'm really excited to talk to you today.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Thibault Manekin:</strong> [00:01:20] Hi Eve, I'm excited to talk to you, too. Thank you for having us.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Eve:</strong> [00:01:23] It's a pleasure. So, you started your company by building quality, affordable housing for teachers, and that's a really targeted mission and I'm wondering what led you to this work?</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Thibault :</strong> [00:01:36] Yes, I probably have to go back a little further than that. When I first graduated from college at around 21 years old, I helped, with two buddies, we started an international non-profit organization called Playing for Peace. It's called PeacePlayers Today. And the idea is that we would go to war-torn countries and we would use sports to get kids from two sides of a conflict, meet each