Pooja Agrawal, architect and planner, is co-founder of the social enterprise Public Practice, and now serves as its CEO. Based in London, Public Practice creates placements for trained architects and planners in local government. Their goal is to build up the capacity of planning departments to respond to both the crisis of affordable housing, and to the shortage of skilled practitioners in the public sector. At the same time they are working to make that new generation of city planners young and diverse. Public Practice’s initial cohort was 17 ‘associates,’ then 37 the following year (from over 400 applicants). And those new associates joined 24 councils across London and south-east England.  Pooja has also worked at Homes England and for the Greater London Authority, where she managed the Mayor’s Good Growth by Design Programme and the London Review Panel.  If you'd like to join me in my quest to rethink real estate, there are two simple things you can do. Share this podcast and go to RethinkRealEstateForGood.co, where you can subscribe to be the first to hear about my podcasts, blog posts and other goodies.

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