Our Knowledge and Experience

We have policy, program and operational experience doing real projects that created housing opportunities for thousands of people.

We’ve done work for the following clients since starting our company in September, 2021:

• Housing Forward Virginia - assisting with a workshop for the Harrisonburg, VA. City Council on affordable housing

• Grant reviews for The Northern Virginia Regional Commission

• Grant reviews for The Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission

• Preliminary feasibility study for ForKids, Inc., Norfolk, VA

• The Claude Moore Charitable Foundation - white paper on the need for affordable rental housing

• Virginia PACE Authority - local government outreach to establish energy efficiency and renewable energy program

Our Beliefs

• Everyone deserves an opportunity to have safe, affordable housing.

• No local or state government can or should guarantee housing or shelter, but they can continually work to expand housing opportunities to meet their community’s needs.

• Each person’s housing needs are different — people who have a temporary need should get temporary assistance.

• People experiencing homelessness are not “the homeless.” There is a continuously changing group of people, each with their own unique strengths and vulnerabilities, who need opportunities to become housed — they are not defined by their housing status alone.

• Housing only exists in neighborhoods and should be part of and contribute to a safe, well-maintained neighborhood.

Our Services

We draw on our knowledge, relationships and analytical abilities to provide insights to help you at all levels of work in housing, homelessness and neighborhood improvement — policy, programs, financial planning and management, and organizational design and planning.

We can also connect you with our partners, like Housing Forward Virginia, a leading housing consultant in Virginia.

Our Goals

We strive to help you achieve your goals for housing, homelessness or neighborhoods. We’ve worked with and helped lead multiple partners to realize their vision and achieve their goals, including:

• Creating a community-wide partnership that supported a dramatic move forward for the City of Virginia Beach’s efforts to address homelessness, culminating in the $25 million, “one-stop shop” Housing Resource Center

• Functionally ending veteran homelessness throughout Virginia Beach, South Hampton Roads, and the Commonwealth

• Completing the revitalization of 10 neighborhoods

• Supporting the nation’s first supportive housing development only for veterans

• Leading and coordinating five neighboring localities, three or more Continua of Care, several nonprofits and private entities in an 11-year multi-agency effort that ultimately created 400 new units of permanent supportive housing for previously homeless people

• Implementing in May 2020, one of the state’s, and perhaps the nation’s, first rental assistance programs to provide housing stability during the pandemic