housing services include
Development consulting
- Building your organization's capacity
- Do you want to lease, acquire or develop property for housing?
- How does housing fit with your strategic plan and your risk appetite?
- Understanding the economics of housing: capital, occupancy and service costs
- Property management 101
- Understanding the differences between emergency, transitional, supportive and affordable housing? Which is right for you and your clients?
- Applying for federal, provincial and municipal funding; negotiating with funders
- Reviewing development economics, preparation of pro formas, feasibility analysis, assistance with underwriting process
- Crunching the numbers: creating a sustainable financial plan
Community engagement and research
- Creating and implementing a communications and community engagement plan that is tailor-made for your project
- Building support in the community
- Liaison with community and civic leadership
- Hosting online and in-person community open houses, public meetings, community liaison committees
- Facilitating design exercises, charrettes, focus groups, key opinion leader surveys, street level and client intercept surveys
- Liaising with quantitative (public opinion) researchers
- Facilitating CPTED walking tours (Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design)
- Tactical support: websites, postal distribution, media releases, media training, advertising creative and purchasing, robocalls
Project management
- Working with your organization's leadership and other consultants to develop and implement a housing plan
- Liaison with consultants, architects, construction management, funders
- Tracking of project budgets
- Approval of entitlements
- Liaison with municipal officials
- (Please note that services do not include construction management or procurement)
- Ongoing advisory support once your project is operating
Real estate services (See disclaimer)
- Site research and recommendations
- Leasing and property sales and purchases
- Coordination of building condition assessments and studies