Social Equity in Commercial Real Estate with Rainey Shane of SEAM
In this episode of the Green Healthy Places Podcast, host Matt Morley is in Atlanta, Georgia talking to Rainey Shane, Co-Founder and CEO of SEAM, the Social Equity Assessment Method for commercial real estate.
SEAM aims to promote social equity in the planning, design, construction and operation of built environments.
Rainey previously ran a nonprofit focused on forced labour and spent over six years developing this new standard intended to help guide developers in creating more equitable buildings.
We discuss social equity and Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI), the sustainability standard landscape, the key challenges Rainey faced pulling this new standard together from scratch, human-centered design practices and the role of social equity in the real estate supply chain, amongst other things.
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