OUR VISION

 

OUR MISSION

 

Loving Your Place

 

We envision neighborhoods regenerated by small developers who care deeply about the places where they live and build.

 

The Alliance helps local entrepreneurs and civic leaders strengthen their neighborhoods through small-scale real estate projects.

 

So much of the real estate industry is extractive, where far-away investors mine the value from properties that line our streets. We are working toward a more generative real estate model, where local people can invest in their own neighborhoods and in that process, create new life and value that benefits their community. The kind of places we want to live in are built and maintained by people who really love them.

 

Missing Middle Housing spans the gap between detached single-family homes to large apartment buildings. Diagram from our friends at Opticos Design.

Organizational Impact

We started our work in 2015 with a simple proposition: small scale developers could their hard-won lessons with folks who wanted to try their own hand at development. Within 18 months we were delivering 15 trainings across the US each year and developing guide materials to communicate our curriculum.

Here are a few of the accomplishments we’re most proud of to date:

  • number of events, states, alumni etc

  • zoning code changes

Read more of these success stories and case studies here [link to blog]