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Build your team’s capacity to create compounding change.

Great neighborhoods aren’t built by consultants — they’re built by capable local leaders who understand how their decisions compound over time.

Our workshops, seminars and bootcamps equip your staff, elected officials, and community stakeholders with the knowledge and tools to create lasting momentum. Whether you need a half-day introduction, or a multi-day intensive, we meet your team where they are and give them what they need to succeed.

Our Training Philosophy

We don’t just teach theory — we build capability.

Every session is designed around real challenges your community faces. We use your actual projects, policies, and political dynamics as case studies. Participants leave with frameworks they can apply immediately and confidence they can sustain long after we’re gone.

You learn by doing, not just listening.

Our workshops are interactive, collaborative, and practical. We facilitate working sessions where your team grapples with real decisions, tests strategies, and builds alignment around a shared vision.

Housing Economics 101: The State of Local Housing Supply (Half-Day)

Who it’s for: City managers, planning staff, economic development professionals, chambers of commerce, philanthropic partners, elected officials, and local committee members.

What you’ll learn:

  • What types of housing your market currently has and the types it needs. We’ll also explain why there is a gap between the two that the market isn’t currently solving for.

  • How residential development financing actually works — from land acquisition to infrastructure to permanent financing.

  • Why certain housing types pencil and others don’t in your market.

  • How policy decisions (zoning, fees, timelines) impact project feasibility

Housing 202: How to Make the Math Work (Half-Day)

This session is focused on real-life project examples that range from small-scale infill projects, to complex multi-family developments, to clusters of starter homes. We want your team to understand how these options are typically financed, where the roadblocks likely stand, and how to clear those hurdles in a financially sustainable and replicable way.

What you’ll learn:

  • Basic design elements to reduce the cost of housing without sacrificing quality

  • Leveraging traditional equity and debt,

  • Seeking financing from state and federal resources, and

  • How to apply local tax incentives and abatements to housing.

Housing System Reset (Full Day or Multi-Day)

Your community or region is ready to tackle housing head-on and make serious changes. But what does that mean and where should you begin? Our team has supported multiple initiatives that are currently working to address housing affordability challenges on a regional scale and through a systems-level approach. We help to stand up backbone organizations that will be charged with the big and messy work of systems change.

What you’ll learn:

  • Use your housing needs assessment to set the strategic direction

  • Map and connect with key stakeholders, influencers and power brokers that are capable of shifting policies and practices to benefit your local housing market

  • Craft a communication strategy to build widespread community buy-in and articulate a clear and compelling call to action

  • Solve for financing to support housing at all price points - grounded in the political reality of your community

  • Build a network of professionals who trust one another and are working toward a shared goal

  • Engage private sector partners, philanthropy, and public agencies at all levels of government