Carla Potts, Deputy Director of Housing Development of Northeast Community Action Corporation (NECAC), joins us today to discuss their ASPIRE program, a joint initiative to reduce prison recidivism while increasing the available affordable housing.

We cover how ASPIRE trains people in Missouri’s correctional facilities in skilled and semi-skilled trades by building new homes inside of prison walls. These homes are later transported to a property and purchased for the cost of building and installing the home.

Hear how ASPIRE is aimed at helping people with affordable housing while at the same time helping people in prison learn skills they want to learn to enter the job force at a decent wage after release from prison.

NECAC is following the model set forth in South Dakota’s Governor’s House project.

http://necac.org/