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CLIENTS & Impact

CROSS- SECTOR COALITIONS

Purple Line Corridor Coalition

Challenge

The Purple Line transit investment creates opportunities for economic growth while simultaneously increasing the risk of housing displacement and loss of affordability for low- and moderate-income households throughout Montgomery and Prince George's Counties. Coalition partners sought to preserve 17,000 affordable homes while ensuring residents could benefit from the corridor's long-term economic growth.

Kairos Role

As Housing Development Consultant, Kairos Development provides technical assistance to nonprofit organizations, mission-driven developers, local governments, and community stakeholders. Services include development feasibility analysis, housing preservation strategies, financial structuring, partnership development, funding applications, and project implementation support. 

 

Outcomes

• Secured more than $12.4 million in grant funding for housing preservation and production initiatives.
• Advanced equitable transit-oriented development strategies designed to mitigate displacement pressures.
• Supported preservation and acquisition efforts that strengthen workforce housing and long-term corridor competitiveness.

 

Purple Line Preservation Network (Economic Recovery Corps Fellowship)

Challenge

Transit-oriented investment and rising property values threatened the affordability and stability of naturally occurring affordable housing throughout the Purple Line corridor. Local organizations lacked a coordinated structure to respond at scale.

Kairos Role

As co-lead of the Purple Line Preservation Network through the Economic Recovery Corps Fellowship, Kairos helped establish a regional preservation network connecting housing practitioners, researchers, nonprofit organizations, tenant advocates, and public-sector partners.

Outcomes

• Facilitated more than $10.3 million in acquisition and capital investments.
• Supported efforts that stabilized 177 low-income households.
• Created a collaborative regional framework for preserving affordability and promoting inclusive economic growth.

 

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATIONS

Cherry Hill Development Corporation

Challenge

Cherry Hill faced decades of disinvestment, concentrated poverty, aging infrastructure, and limited economic opportunity. Community leaders sought a long-term strategy to guide equitable redevelopment and attract public and private investment.

Kairos Role

Kairos co-led and co-authored the development of the 2020 Cherry Hill Transformation Plan and continues to support implementation efforts through development advisory services, funding strategy, organizational capacity building, and redevelopment planning.

Outcomes

• Helped secure more than $4.1 million in funding to support redevelopment efforts and organizational growth.
• Facilitated a community-driven planning process involving more than 350 stakeholders.
• Positioned Cherry Hill to receive approximately $3 million through Maryland's ENOUGH initiative.
• Advanced Patapsco Pointe, a mixed-income housing development expected to generate more than $37 million in investment during its first phase.

Beloved Community Services Corporation

Challenge

The historic Henry Highland Garnet School had remained vacant and blighted for more than two decades, limiting economic activity and neighborhood revitalization efforts in West Baltimore's Upton community.

Kairos Role

Kairos served on the development team, helping structure financing, secure public funding resources, and advance redevelopment strategies for the adaptive reuse of the historic property.

Outcomes

• Secured $1.83 million in Maryland Historic Revitalization Tax Credits.
• Secured $500,000 through Baltimore City's Revitalization Neighborhood Initiative.
• Supported a $14.6 million redevelopment project transforming a vacant landmark into the Justice Thurgood Marshall Amenity Center.
• Contributed to a broader redevelopment effort estimated to have catalyzed approximately $50 million in additional neighborhood investment.

 

FAITH BASED INSTITUTIONS

St. Christopher's Episcopal Church / Center of Grace Initiative

Challenge

St. Christopher's Episcopal Church sought to transform 2.55 acres of underutilized church-owned land in the rapidly changing New Carrollton transit corridor into a community asset that could address affordable housing needs, strengthen neighborhood resilience, and preserve the church's long-term mission and presence. The congregation needed technical expertise, development capacity, and strategic partnerships to move from concept to implementation while navigating complex development, governance, and financing challenges.

Kairos Role

Kairos Development serves as development advisor, guiding predevelopment planning, development strategy, financial feasibility analysis, partnership development, governance capacity building, and affordable housing implementation. Kairos has helped the church establish a community development framework, evaluate development scenarios, identify funding opportunities, structure procurement processes, and position the project for long-term financing and implementation.

Impact

• Advances plans for approximately 80 affordable apartment homes in a high-opportunity, transit-oriented community.
• Strengthens the organizational and governance capacity of the Center of Grace to steward a complex community development initiative.
• Positions the project to attract and leverage public, private, and philanthropic investment for long-term community benefit.
• Creates a development framework that integrates affordable housing, community resilience programming, and community-serving space on church-owned land.
• Leverages an initial $55,000 planning grant into $270,000 in additional public and philanthropic investment, expanding project readiness and implementation capacity.

Carolina Missionary Baptist Church / Harambee Community Development Corporation

Challenge

Prince George's County continues to experience growing housing instability among women and families experiencing homelessness, particularly those living with HIV/AIDS and other chronic health conditions. Harambee Community Development Corporation seeks to create permanent supportive housing and wraparound services but required development planning, funding strategies, and project positioning to move the initiative forward.

Kairos Role

Through Enterprise Community Partners' Faith-Based Development Initiative, Kairos Development provided development advisory services, feasibility guidance, project strategy, and funding support to help advance "The House," a permanent supportive housing initiative located on the campus of Carolina Missionary Baptist Church.

Impact

• 30-unit permanent supportive housing community advanced for women and families facing housing instability.
• Comprehensive service-enriched housing model created to support long-term resident stability and self-sufficiency.
• Church-owned assets activated to generate lasting community and economic impact.
• $55,000 grant leveraged into $145,000 in additional public investment

 

PHILANTHROPIC

Enterprise Community Partners

Challenge

Community-based organizations, faith institutions, and emerging developers often possess valuable community assets but lack the technical expertise, development capacity, and access to capital necessary to advance transformative real estate and economic development initiatives.

Kairos Role

Kairos Development serves as a development advisor across multiple Enterprise Community Partners initiatives, including the Faith-Based Development Initiative and Equitable Path Forward. Kairos provides feasibility analysis, redevelopment planning, financial review, organizational capacity building, project evaluation, and development strategy support to nonprofit and faith-based organizations pursuing community-serving real estate initiatives.

Impact

• Supported multiple faith-based institutions in evaluating redevelopment opportunities on underutilized properties.
• Helped strengthen development capacity among community-based and minority-led organizations.
• Assisted organizations in positioning projects for investment and implementation.
• Expanded opportunities for affordable housing production, community wealth-building, and neighborhood revitalization throughout the region.

GOVERNMENT & PUBLIC SECTOR

City of Takoma Park

Challenge

Takoma Park sought to revitalize targeted commercial corridors, preserve affordability, strengthen neighborhood stability, and attract investment that aligned with broader economic development goals.

Kairos Role

Kairos provided redevelopment strategy, housing preservation planning, funding acquisition support, and public-private partnership development services.

 

Outcomes

• Secured two National Capital Strategic Economic Development Fund awards totaling $320,000.
• Assisted in obtaining approximately $1.05 million that enabled tenant acquisition of affordable housing under TOPA.
• Developed an innovative preservation financing strategy that leveraged state and local resources to maintain affordability and improve long-term asset performance.

 

AFFORDABLE HOUSING & PRIVATE SECTOR PARTNERS

Delwin Realty

Challenge

A long-term affordable housing provider faced significant capital needs and an earlier redevelopment plan that was financially infeasible. The owner needed a preservation strategy capable of maintaining affordability while improving operational performance and long-term sustainability.

Kairos Role

Kairos led development of a phased preservation strategy, conducted financial analysis, identified funding opportunities, and structured a capital plan focused on long-term affordability and asset preservation.

Outcomes

• Secured more than $4.1 million in grant funding for capital improvements.
• Helped establish a new local precedent for affordable housing preservation without LIHTC financing.
• Improved long-term affordability, environmental performance, and operational sustainability of the housing portfolio.

Yoke Management Partners

Challenge: An emerging BIPOC-led developer sought to acquire and preserve affordable housing along major transit corridors while navigating complex ROFR transactions, public financing requirements, and resident protections.

Kairos Role: Advised Yoke Management Partners on acquisition strategy, affordability preservation, public financing, stakeholder engagement, PILOT negotiations, and transaction structuring for two multifamily acquisitions totaling 53 units.

Impact:

• 53 affordable homes preserved in along a new transit corridor.
• $5.1M+ secured in public financing to support property acquisitions.
• New long-term affordability covenants established with income and rent restrictions.
• PILOT agreement secured to enhance project sustainability.
• Tenant Benefits Agreement negotiated to protect residents.
• Expanded minority-owned housing portfolio and advanced equitable community investment.

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