Workshop A — Your Complete Guide to Asset Management: Funding, Developing, Managing, Maximizing and Protecting Housing Assets

Nov 15, 2023 9:00am – 12:30 PM

Katlia Lafferty
Articled Student
macushlaw
Member
Yellowknives Dene First Nation
Co-founder
National Indigenous Collaborative Housing Inc

James Struthers
Founder & Managing Lawyer
macushlaw

(Registration opens at 8:30am)

This workshop is especially designed for community land managers and housing managers. Delegates will learn how to fund and finance the development of new housing assets, and how to reduce the cost of managing, optimize the benefits of, and protect from risks, existing housing assets. Delegates will receive template agreements at the end of the presentation. Topics to be covered will include:

  • Available funding streams for housing development
  • Types of financing for housing
  • Types of land interests for housing, on and off reserve
  • How to reduce the time and cost of managing routine housing related agreements
  • How to reduce employment liabilities
  • How to reduce other liabilities in operating housing assets (civil, program liability, Nation politics etc.)
  • FNCIDA adoption and residential tenancy
  • How to set up a housing society and the benefits of the same