Real Estate Planning and Development
Maurice can lead land-use planning, design, technical consultant services, and overall development of affordable housing and other social infrastructure projects. Specific services for affordable housing and other social infrastructure projects include:
- Pro forma and business case development
- Land suitability and analysis
- Asset management strategies
- Project financing, financial sustainability
- Consultant and contractor procurement
- Navigating municipal and regulatory requirements
Select Case Studies
- Affordable Homeownership
- Affordable and Mixed-income Rental Housing
- Integrated Developments
- Seniors Complex Care
Strategic Partnerships and Business Transactions
Maurice can help design and implement project-specific and longer term strategic business arrangements. These services include:
- Structuring multi-agency and inter-sectoral arrangements involving non-profit and charitable organizations, public agencies/governments, and private developers and businesses
- Triple-bottom-line approach to project business case and pro forma’s
- Stakeholder engagement processes
- Structuring transactions to maximize community resources, appropriately share risks and benefits, and optimize return on investment
Strategies, Policies, Procedures and Analytics
Maurice can develop viable business plans, achievable and measurable needs assessments, and long-term strategies and multi-year capital plans to attain affordable housing and other social infrastructure goals. This includes:
- Undertaking fully researched supply/demand gap analysis
- Developing short and long-term capital investment plans
- Preparing policies, plans and strategies to articulate and guide public sector decision making and ‘move the needle’ in addressing community social infrastructure needs.
- Developing social infrastructure components of Official Community Plans and Regional Growth Strategies.
- Developing inclusionary zoning bylaws and other regulatory tools to address affordable housing gaps, and guidelines to move from regulations to achievable actions.
- Developing frameworks (such as Logic Model) and communications tools (such as Dashboard) to articulate intended outcomes, indicators to track outcomes, and performance metrics to measure impacts of strategies, plans and actions.