EP 259 PHIL LEVIN: Creative Strategies to Live Near Friends and Family (Missing Middle Housing)

In this episode, I connect with Phil Levin, founder of the Live Near Friends organization and movement to talk about the benefits and logistics of finding creative ways to live closer to our beloved friends and family members. We naturally end up talking about innovative strategies to enhance happiness and social cohesion while also increasing missing middle housing supplies.

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Helpful Links (note that some may include affiliate links to help me support the channel):
- Live Near Friends website: https://livenearfriends.com/
- Super Nuclear Blog: https://supernuclear.substack.com/
- My Culdesac interview with Ryan Johnson:    • A conversation w/ Culdesac co-founder...  
- My mini-tour of Culdesac:    • Culdesac Tempe: A car-free rental apa...  
- My ride to Culdesac from the Airport (scary):    • Riding my bike from the Phoenix airpo...  
- My ride to the Airport from Culdesac (awesome!):    • Riding my bike from the Phoenix airpo...  
- Culdesac website: https://culdesac.com/
- My Pocket Neighborhood video w/ Ross Chapin:    • Pocket Neighborhoods | Ross Chapin  
- Dan Parolek - Missing Middle Housing: https://missingmiddlehousing.com/
- Escaping the Housing Trap by Chuck Marohn and Daniel Herriges: https://www.housingtrap.org/
- Ann Sussman - Cognitive Architecture episode: https://www.activetowns.org/2021/08/2...

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Background:
Hi Everyone! My name is John Simmerman, and I’m a health promotion and public health professional with over 30 years of experience. Over the years, my area of concentration has evolved into a specialization in how the built environment influences human behavior related to active living and especially active mobility.

Since 2010, I've been exploring, documenting, and profiling established, emerging, and aspiring Active Towns wherever they might be while striving to produce high-quality multimedia content to help inspire the creation of more safe and inviting, environments that promote a "Culture of Activity" for "All Ages & Abilities."

The Active Towns Channel features my original video content and reflections, including a selection of podcast episodes and short films profiling the positive and inspiring efforts happening around the world as I am able to experience and document them.

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