Kevin Cooper

 

Kevin Cooper is a dedicated affordable housing professional with 10 years of experience working for municipal and provincial governments, non-profit housing providers, and for-profit private sector clients. 

He is a proven champion of affordable housing who has prepared successfully funded multi-million dollar housing proposals, provided strategic advice for executives and government officials regarding capital and operating decisions, and has laid the foundation for multiple housing strategies and programs. 

Kevin understands the unique needs of non-profit housing providers, developers, municipalities and provincial governments alike, and is well-positioned to advance your housing priorities.

Services

  • ● Funding identification and growth strategy

    ● Preparing funding applications for municipal, provincial and federal funders

    ● Project-specific business case and needs assessment

    ● Portfolio and property-specific sustainability briefings

    ● Mixed-income and alternative service delivery modelling

    ● Government relation strategies

    ● Environmental scans of the local, regional or provincial housing landscape

    ● Market research including revenue and expenditure benchmarks

    ● General planning support including site acquisition advisory and rezoning

  • ● Funding identification and growth strategy

    ● Preparing funding applications for provincial and federal funders

    ● Preparing municipal needs assessments

    ● Capital program development and implementation advisory

    ● Project-specific business case and needs assessment

    ● Integration of transit and affordable housing projects

    ● Mixed-income and alternative service delivery modeling

    ● Zoning Bylaw renewal advisory specific to improving housing affordability

    ● Market research including affordable housing revenue and expenditure benchmarks

    ● Housing policy research and program evaluation

  • ● Capital program development and implementation advisory

    ● Mixed-income and alternative service delivery modeling

    ● Market research including affordable housing revenue and expenditure benchmarks

    ● Housing policy research and program evaluation

Featured Projects

 

Stronger Foundations: Alberta’s 10-Year Strategy

 

Kevin Cooper worked collaboratively with the Housing Policy Branch representatives and senior management of the Housing Capital Programs Branch to develop the capital cost model for Stronger Foundations: Alberta’s 10-Year Affordable Housing Strategy. The plan is expected to increase the affordable housing supply in Alberta by 25,000 units including the construction of 13,000 units of various housing typologies. Cabinet approved the strategy in 2021.

Through Building Forward: Alberta’s 20-Year Strategic Capital Plan

 

Kevin Cooper worked collaboratively with Alberta Infrastructure representatives, and senior management of the Housing Division including the Assistant Deputy Minister, Executive Directors and Directors to formulate a strategic direction for affordable housing in Alberta authored under Sector Nine: Supporting Housing and Inclusive Housing in Alberta’s 20-Year Strategic Capital Plan. Cabinet approved the strategy in conjunction with the Infrastructure Accountability Act in 2021. 

Investing in Canada Infrastructure Program (ICIP) Application

 

Kevin Cooper worked collaboratively with Alberta Infrastructure representatives, and senior management of the Housing Capital Programs Branch to prepare the Government of Alberta’s application for the Investing in Canada Infrastructure Program.  The application was approved and the governments of Canada and Alberta injected more than $31.9 million to complete crucial repairs and upgrades to seniors and family housing across 95 communities in the province. 

Balwin Place Permanent Supportive Housing

 

Kevin Cooper supported executive leadership at Homeward Trust Edmonton in preparing a $4 million capital grant funding proposal to construct a 25-unit permanent supportive housing facility called Balwin Place. The proposal was approved by the Government of Alberta, and opened in 2018 to house people experiencing homelessness in Edmonton.

Kevin has worked on projects with these organizations

 

Non-Profit Housing Providers

  • Canadian Mental Health Association - Edmonton Region

  • NiGiNan Housing Ventures

  • Right at Home Housing Society

  • Medicine Hat Community Housing Society

  • Homeward Trust Edmonton

  • Green Violin Community Development Company

  • Siloam Mission

  • Cypress View Foundation

  • Civida

Government

  • City of Edmonton

  • City of Red Deer

  • City of Toronto

  • Government of Alberta

Builders

  • Single Tree Builders

  • Norcap Investments

  • Monarch Group 

  • Pannu Homes