For more than thirty years, I have been involved in public policy in the areas of education, health, and housing. I was a housing director at a large regional non-profit, managing housing operations and development. At the same time, I have been an advocate for progressive supply side solutions to housing scarcity, and it is lack of housing that keeps housing expensive for poorer people and families. My background as a staff person for state and local elected officials, work in government, the non-profit sector, at a sustainability think tank, in political campaigns, and in the public health field culminated in my work for Center for Housing Economics (formerly Seattle For Growth), a housing and growth advocacy organization pushing for more housing supply for all levels of income.