Mobility, real estate and equity.

<p><a href="https://evepicker.com/mobility-real-estate-and-equity/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>BE SURE TO SEE THE SHOWNOTES AND LISTEN TO THIS EPISODE HERE.</strong></a></p> <p><strong>Eve Picker:</strong> [00:00:05] Hi there. Thanks so much for joining me today for the latest episode of Impact Real Estate Investing. My guest today is Karina Ricks, the inaugural director of the City of Pittsburgh's Department of Mobility and Infrastructure. This new department has very clear goals to serve its citizens. Karina wants to ensure that no one dies or is seriously injured traveling on city streets, that every household in Pittsburgh can access fresh fruits and vegetables within 20 minutes travel of home without the requirement of a private vehicle, that all trips less than one mile are easily and enjoyably achieved by non-vehicle travel, that streets and intersections can be intuitively navigated by an adolescent, and that the combined cost of transportation, housing and energy does not exceed 45 percent of household income for any income group.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Eve Picker:</strong> [00:01:11] These goals sound simple, but are really quite a revolutionary way for a city department to be thinking about transportation infrastructure. Be sure to go to evepicker.com to find out more about Karina 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 Picker:</strong> [00:01:50] Hi, Karina. Thanks very much for joining me.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Karina Ricks:</strong> [00:01:53] Great to be here. Thanks.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Eve Picker:</strong> [00:01:54] So you're the first director of a brand new department in Pittsburgh, the Department of Mobility and Infrastructure. And I'm wondering how that department came to be.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Karina Ricks:</strong> [00:02:05] So the departm