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Due South

Tiny house advocate aims for big changes to help increase Black homeownership

By Leoneda Inge,

Published March 4, 2024 at 2:35 PM EST

Tiny house advocate Jewel Pearson was working hard to challenge the status quo of housing in America when she realized she had a different kind of challenge ahead of her — to upend the status quo within the tiny house movement itself, by advocating for representation, inclusion and increased access to tiny homeownership for people of color.

Pearson talks with co-host Leoneda Inge about her tiny house journey and her efforts to create safe, community-oriented spaces for tiny home dwellers to live.

Guest
Jewel Pearson, tiny house designer, advocate and consultant

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Leoneda Inge

Leoneda Inge is the co-host of WUNC's "Due South." Leoneda has been a radio journalist for more than 30 years, spending most of her career at WUNC as the Race and Southern Culture reporter. Leoneda’s work includes stories of race, slavery, memory and monuments. She has won "Gracie" awards, an Alfred I. duPont Award and several awards from the Radio, Television, Digital News Association (RTDNA). In 2017, Leoneda was named "Journalist of Distinction" by the National Association of Black Journalists.

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Rachel McCarthy

Rachel McCarthy is a producer for "Due South." She previously worked at WUNC as a producer for "The Story with Dick Gordon." More recently, Rachel was podcast managing editor at Capitol Broadcasting Company where she developed narrative series and edited a daily podcast. She also worked at "The Double Shift" podcast as supervising producer. Rachel learned about audio storytelling at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies. Prior to working in audio journalism, she was a research assistant at the Aspen Institute in Washington, DC.

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