Social Benefit Housing means more than just building more housing units. It means providing ways for helping people stay in their units, reducing risk for landlords, supporting self-reliance, mutual accountability, empowerment, and independence.

Our plan is to start locally and then branch out to smaller surrounding communities, inviting collaboration and investment in following the opportunities in these areas: 

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• Hotel- run hotel business as a "backbone business" and increase revenues as much as possible 

  • Invite philanthropic participation toward a sustainable project

  • Expand business opportunities for more revenues and opps for participants

  • Create a brand that attracts business and can be repeated in other communities

    • Quality, luxury experience at reasonable prices

    • Social benefit

    • Use local- promote and support local businesses in each location

    • Create a family atmosphere, home away from home

• Plan and deploy housing as per need and opportunity

  • Explore provincial and federal land and property partnerships

  • Find good deals on land and/or buildings

  • Work with neighbourhoods and community to determine needs

  • Apply mixed- market and mixed-income strategies for sustainability

• Creatively retrofitting and renovating buildings and properties into "purpose-built communities"

  • Preserve history

  • Upgrade for energy efficiency and environmental sustainability

  • Create added value for neighbourhood need and integration opportunity for tenants

  • Provide job opps for participants and other community members

• Property management for social benefit

  • Opportunities for senior property owners or those who want hands-off but will accept lower returns with protection and even development of their investment in order to help someone else

  • Create a "stable" of units to support and supplement each other

  • Manage our own buildings as well as those of other agencies who don’t want to manage properties they own

  • Develop homeownership opportunities

  • "Matchmaking" tenants and landlords creatively and safely

• Create employment and business opportunities through housing-related and success supporting activities

  • related businesses that provide services to our housing development and property management activities

    • construction and renovation/redeeming spaces

    • landscaping

    • cleaning

    • moving

    • design and décor

  • businesses based on opportunity, market needs,  and the interests of ourselves and our clients to provide economic sustainability to our tenants and assist them toward homeownership where possible

    • music production

    • film production

    • online marketplace

    • crafts and folk art

    • organic gardening, alternative farming

    • restaurant and food services

    • low-cost food co-op

    • daycare

    • furniture reclamation 

    • grass-roots publishing

    • facilitation services

    • community alignment services and resources

  • businesses that fit in the communities we are helping, based on need and opportunity