At Home, On Air Podcast Episode 51 | People First: Creating Spaces Without Walls
In this episode of our podcast, we welcome Nichole Battle, the CEO of the Govans Ecumenical Development Corporation (GEDCO). In this compelling conversation, hosted by architect and AHWGO Executive Director Susanne Stadler, we explore the profound connection between affordable housing and community vitality.
“What if affordable housing could transform entire communities, not just provide shelter?”
Battle leads GEDCO, a Baltimore-based affordable housing developer born from a coalition of churches responding to their parishioners' needs. With her background in urban planning, landscape architecture, and real estate development—plus deep roots as a longtime Baltimore resident—Nichole understands that decent housing goes beyond four walls and a roof. It's about creating context: green spaces where neighbors gather, ball fields for exercise and play, urban farms that nourish bodies and spirits, and sacred grounds for celebration and reflection. It's also about stability—having a home provides the foundation people need to secure employment and fully participate in community life.
“When we put people first, housing becomes something bigger—it creates spaces without walls that strengthen the entire community,” shares Nichole.
At Home With Growing Older is proud to host At Home, On Air—a radio hour offering connection, community and knowledge to our participants.
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At Home, On Air Podcast Episode 51 | People First: Creating Spaces Without Walls
In this episode of our podcast, we welcome Nichole Battle, the CEO of the Govans Ecumenical Development Corporation (GEDCO). In this compelling conversation, hosted by architect and AHWGO Executive Director Susanne Stadler, we explore the profound connection between affordable housing and community vitality.
“What if affordable housing could transform entire communities, not just provide shelter?”
Battle leads GEDCO, a Baltimore-based affordable housing developer born from a coalition of churches responding to their parishioners' needs. With her background in urban planning, landscape architecture, and real estate development—plus deep roots as a longtime Baltimore resident—Nichole understands that decent housing goes beyond four walls and a roof. It's about creating context: green spaces where neighbors gather, ball fields for exercise and play, urban farms that nourish bodies and spirits, and sacred grounds for celebration and reflection. It's also about stability—having a home provides the foundation people need to secure employment and fully participate in community life.
“When we put people first, housing becomes something bigger—it creates spaces without walls that strengthen the entire community,” shares Nichole.
At Home With Growing Older is proud to host At Home, On Air—a radio hour offering connection, community and knowledge to our participants.
Transcript: https://share.descript.com/view/edWRfMnDZkd
Learn more, support our work, and register for the next LIVE episode of At Home, On Air: www.athomewithgrowingolder.org.
‘Wildness’ in Healthy Aging | A Conversation with Mistinguette Smith
At Home, On Air
52 minutes 29 seconds
2 years ago
‘Wildness’ in Healthy Aging | A Conversation with Mistinguette Smith
Join us as we discuss, ‘Wildness’ in Healthy Aging: The significance of the relationship to land/place for healthy aging in the Black community, with Mistinguette Smith, writer and founder of the Black/Land Project.
She shares, “For Black people, resourcefulness, resilience and regeneration are rooted in their relationships to urban land, and place.” In this conversation with Mistinguette Smith, we further explore how these relationships nurture and sustain older Black Americans’ lives and offer a legacy of well-being to Black people of all ages.
At Home With Growing Older is proud to be your host of At Home, On Air a radio hour offering connection, community and knowledge to our participants remotely. We invite you to listen and learn from this live recorded episode of, At Home, On Air with Mistinguette Smith.
Learn more, donate today, and register for the next LIVE episode of At Home, On Air: www.athomewithgrowingolder.org
At Home, On Air
At Home, On Air Podcast Episode 51 | People First: Creating Spaces Without Walls
In this episode of our podcast, we welcome Nichole Battle, the CEO of the Govans Ecumenical Development Corporation (GEDCO). In this compelling conversation, hosted by architect and AHWGO Executive Director Susanne Stadler, we explore the profound connection between affordable housing and community vitality.
“What if affordable housing could transform entire communities, not just provide shelter?”
Battle leads GEDCO, a Baltimore-based affordable housing developer born from a coalition of churches responding to their parishioners' needs. With her background in urban planning, landscape architecture, and real estate development—plus deep roots as a longtime Baltimore resident—Nichole understands that decent housing goes beyond four walls and a roof. It's about creating context: green spaces where neighbors gather, ball fields for exercise and play, urban farms that nourish bodies and spirits, and sacred grounds for celebration and reflection. It's also about stability—having a home provides the foundation people need to secure employment and fully participate in community life.
“When we put people first, housing becomes something bigger—it creates spaces without walls that strengthen the entire community,” shares Nichole.
At Home With Growing Older is proud to host At Home, On Air—a radio hour offering connection, community and knowledge to our participants.
Transcript: https://share.descript.com/view/edWRfMnDZkd
Learn more, support our work, and register for the next LIVE episode of At Home, On Air: www.athomewithgrowingolder.org.
