Drawing on two decades of affordable housing experience in urban and rural communities, Tessendorf Consulting provides communities, funders, and developers with customized services in the areas of:
- Delivering conference, workshop, and webinar housing presentations
- Creating and implementing innovative housing products
- Designing community-based housing development projects
- Housing Finance Products
- Grant writing and administration
- Housing advocacy
- Directing, leading, and managing housing organizations
- Evaluating housing projects
- Facilitating Coalitions
Notable Accomplishments:
- Managing the Lynmore Estates Neighborhood Revitalization Project from 2005-2016 resulting in an increase in the homeownership rate from 25% to 50% and a decrease in blight from 47% to 20%
- Securing over $8.5 million in housing development funding from government, corporate, and nonprofit funders including the Georgia Department of Community Affairs, Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta, Wells Fargo Foundation and CAHEC.
- Creating third-party lending options to include zero-equivalent and low-interest mortgages.
- Receiving Habitat for Humanity International’s 2016 National Advocacy Aware for the “Blight Out of Sight” Campaign in Macon, GA which, along with other initiatives, resulted in $14 million in bond funding to address blight in Macon-Bibb County, GA.
- Founding member of Milledgeville Affordable Housing Task Force, Macon-Bibb Blight Task Force and Housing Chatham.
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