Caroline Paules and Karin Najarian are both young, ambitious and think about the local — and global — housing crisis a lot. At least eight hours each day. Both have been directly affected by the national emergency; Paules more directly as the occupant of the lone house standing on her block after the Eaton Fire in Altadena.
As a team of two, they are using different tactics to help solve the problem: Paules as an engineer and Najarian as an architect. They are the CEO and COO, respectively, of Nova Cottage Co., a new affordable housing startup headquartered at tech incubator Idealab Studio in Pasadena.
UN-Habitat predicts that by 2030, 40% of the world population (about 3 billion people) will not have access to adequate, safe and affordable housing. . . .
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Jessica Koslow 