Our Services

Affordable Housing Strategy for Communities & Agencies

Our team works with communities and nonprofit organizations to develop affordable housing plans. Currently, there is a pressing need for communities to act quickly to harness local capacity to both preserve existing housing properties and develop new affordable housing that can serve a broad range of incomes.

We use an inclusive community engagement approach so that those in need of housing are at the center of strategy development. Previous plans have included inclusionary zoning policies, lending program development, land development strategies, community education initiatives and homebuyer counseling and education initiatives.

Local & State Housing Policy Development

Our President, Jenn Lopez, has had the privilege of working with national consultants for twenty years to design policy solutions to the housing crisis in Colorado. She worked with Peter Werwath in Durango, Colorado to develop the community's first inclusionary zoning initiative (Fair Share).

In 2014, she was asked to serve as Colorado’s first cabinet-level Director of Homeless Initiatives for Governor John Hickenlooper. In this role, she worked closely with the Colorado Housing and Finance Authority and the Division of Housing to develop a joint Permanent Supportive Housing underwriting initiative. Zoe LeBeau, a national PSH consultant, was instrumental in co-creating the accompanying Permanent Supportive Housing Toolkit program to ensure all communities in Colorado could access these new resources.

Homeless Crisis Response Services and Strategic Plans

As Director of Homeless Initiatives, Project Moxie’s President Jenn Lopez worked closely with Colorado’s Office of Behavioral Health, HUD Region 8 and Community Solutions to develop Coming Home Colorado. Answering Michelle Obama’s call to action in 2014 to End Veteran’s Homelessness, our state level team developed this community-based initiative to decrease veteran’s homelessness in Colorado. In 2019, Jenn worked with the Athena Group, ArloSoul and Heather Martinez to develop a homeless strategy for Durango/La Plata County. This process included broad scale community engagement and centered the experience of those without housing to help define and implement solutions over the next three years. 

One of the most impactful outcomes of the Durango/La Plata homeless strategy was hearing our unhoused neighbors express the desire for a safe camping area that would be self-managed but have infrastructure (restrooms, showers etc) and support from community partners. This model has since influenced the development of a Safe Outdoor Space movement throughout Colorado. We are now helping other communities to develop this critical COVID-19 intervention to prevent the spread of COVID-19, increase services for the unhoused and develop community and safety for those living outside.

Project Moxie has been working since 2019 to develop the first ever rural Permanent Supportive Housing project in Socorro, New Mexico. In partnership with Ethos Development, JL Grey and El Camino Real Housing Authority, the team has worked tirelessly to advocate for funding and develop a project that can house those with the greatest needs in this rural community.

Project Moxie’s President Jenn Lopez co-created Colorado’s Permanent Supportive Housing toolkit in 2014 and later served as the lead housing consultant for the Congregation Land Campaign. In both roles, we helped nonprofits and congregations to develop housing project concepts and then manage a process to select a development partner, solidify development agreements and undertake housing projects. Much of this work has been generously funded by Enterprise Community Partners.

At the heart of Project Moxie’s work is a passion and proven track record for resource development. We work with our clients to identify resource needs, develop grant writing strategies and write proposals that are succinct and compelling—leading to more dollars and more outcomes. We’ve raised millions in new funding for our clients, and we are adept at finding and securing resources to bring big ideas to fruition.