Essential Service Housing

Our focus is to preserve historic buildings and provide affordable housing to veterans and essential services workers.  

  • Maple Lofts provides the following services, service level varies based on the current level of program funding.

  • Veteran Housing and Affordable Housing.  The affordable housings program’s primary focus is providing a best practice proof of concept for constructing and operating a veteran and affordable housing pilot program. 

  • Historic Building Renovation and Housing.  The historic housing program’s primary focus is to preserve and improve existing historic structures.  The focus of the program is historic property improvements, historic condo conversions, and assisting historic properties in developing long-term viable financial structures. 

  • Workforce Housing and Training.  The workforce programs provides housing and training.  The main focus is to provide housing and training to refugees from conflict zones and veterans.  The scope of the training program includes:

    • HVAC, carpentry, electrical, fine woodworking, painting, and basic construction skills.

    • First aid, CPR, AED, Narcan, and child and infant care.

    • Refugee transition life skills (banking, certification school enrollment, etc) , social skills, teen tutoring, and case management.

    • Injury rehabilitation programs covering back and core, fitness training, and hand and elbow recovery. 

  • Our 40 unit pilot program is currently underdevelopment. Our selection criteria rates projects based on quality, affordability, and proximity to service areas.

    • Allocate of dedicated affordable units to veterans, active service, or essential services workers

    • Emergency services

    • Critical infrastructure

    • Medicine

    • Education

  • Community resilience

    • Emergency generators / on site cogeneration capacity

    • Storm water management

    • Flex space for emergency housing (ie convertible common rooms with kitchens and shower facilities)

    • Excess emergency power distribution capacity

    • Flex parking for emergency service vehicles

    • Capacity to address displaced residents & travels in the event of weather and transit emergencies

    • Community Education

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Emergency Generators \ Onsite Cogeneration Capacity

Emergency Generators \ Onsite Cogeneration Capacity