The United Counties of Leeds and Grenville, Community Housing Department, is inviting local innovators, builders, and land developers to partner on topic-specific workshops that offer solutions to create more Affordable Housing units faster in Leeds and Grenville. The intended audience for the workshop series is builders, trades, land developers, non-profit housing corporations, non-profit organizations, faith-based organizations, municipal staff, and elected officials.
Share your expertise for a skill or solution you have for increasing affordable housing units related to:
- Rural Housing Solutions, such as water and sewer services solutions for expediting new affordable development, or turning empty bedrooms into extra income.
- Project Financing Solutions for Affordable Housing Construction.
- Alternative building solutions like modular construction, 3D printing, mass timber construction, energy efficient building, or other innovative affordable housing building models.
- Missing Middle Housing promoting in-fill development, such as constructing duplexes, triplexes, townhouses and multi-unit buildings.
- Converting commercial spaces into affordable housing units.
- Other affordable housing solutions.
Use this opportunity to promote your affordable housing concept to benefit communities in Leeds and Grenville. Workshop proposals must clearly outline how they will share information on how to build homes faster and/or more affordably in our community. Include your experience of affordable housing projects constructed/created, provide the length of time to present the workshop (approximately), availability of presenter to attend a location in-person in Leeds and Grenville, the workshop audience it is geared for (e.g. people with or without building experience), and other relevant information to support your workshop proposal.
To discuss your proposal, or for questions, contact Caroline Rigutto, Affordable Housing Coordinator at Caroline.Rigutto@uclg.on.ca or 613-342-3840, ext. 2327. Not all workshop proposals can be accommodated, and where multiple proposals of a similar topic are received, The Counties will assess the workshop proposal and select the proposal that provides the greatest value for attendees. Proposals for sales pitches, investment opportunities and untested affordable housing concepts will not be accepted. Presenters who submit workshop proposals will be doing so at their own expense.