Ep 108: Building Wealth by Renting with Shane Phillips and Bob Simpson

Joined by a 20-year veteran of Fannie Mae, Shane shares findings from his work on a proposed new model for building renter wealth: shared prosperity rental housing. Read about the Lewis Center's work at lewis.ucla.edu. Follow our Substack at uclahousingvoice.substack.com. Email Shane at at shanephillips@ucla.edu and follow him on Bluesky and LinkedIn. Show notes: Phillips, S. (2025). Building Renter Wealth: An Evaluation of Shared Prosperity Rental (SPR) Housing Program Design and Feasibility. UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies. Executive summary for the SPR report. Shane’s 2021 article in The Atlantic, “Renting is Terrible, Owning is Worse.” Shane’s blog posts preceding and following the article in The Atlantic. Monkkonen, P., Carlton, I., & Macfarlane, K. (2020). One to four: The market potential of fourplexes in California’s single-family neighborhoods. UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies. The Multifamily Impact Council’s Multifamily Impact Framework. Enterprise Community Partners’ Renter Wealth Creation Fund website. Colorado Renter Rewards program website.