The 4P Affordable Housing Partnership

PUBLIC - NON-PROFIT - PRIVATE COLLABORATIONS IN AFFORDABLE HOUSING

Collaboration and partnerships have long been the watchwords in delivering affordable housing, but private developers working with Non-profit organizations (“NPOs”) to let NPOs fill units in private rental buildings is relatively new. Over the last year, the Housing team at Robins has worked on the implementation of two models that do just that. 

This paper will compare those two models. The first, and simpler of the two, is a referral model, in which the NPO refers prospective tenants to the landlord, and the second is a long-term head lease between the NPO and the landlord.

As this paper is being presented alongside representatives from organizations with which we worked on the head lease model, we have referred to the parties by name in our paper. We have now worked through two referral arrangements, but have chosen to refer to the parties in more general terms.

Read full paper here

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As Partner and Head of Affordable & Social Housing at Robins Appleby LLP, John Fox is an Ontario lawyer with more than 30 years’ experience in housing development law. He advises private, public, and non-profit clients on acquisitions, financing, and construction involving below-market housing. Formerly with Toronto Community Housing, he has been featured on CBC Metro Morning, is a regular speaker on housing, has chaired two major non-profit boards, and presently serves on two non-profit real estate advisory boards.

At Robins Appleby, we have been providing legal advice for over 70 years to entrepreneurs, businesses, financial institutions, and foreign companies operating in Canada. Located in Toronto's financial district, our firm is trusted by clients to help solve critical, time-sensitive issues. We offer a wide range of legal services including business and transactions, affordable and social housing, litigation and dispute resolution, commercial real estate development, tax law, employment law, and estate planning.