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Affordable and workforce housing,
developed to an institutional standard.

Northwind Development Group develops multifamily communities in Florida with cities, housing authorities, landowners and mission-aligned partners.

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What We Develop

Three kinds of housing. One standard.

Affordable, workforce and mixed-income communities, defined by who they serve and held to one standard of design, construction and management.

Two-storey courtyard housing with balconies around a planted courtyard.
Courtyard housing, Florida. Illustrative study image — not a Northwind project.

01

Affordable Housing

Rental communities serving households at or below 60% of area median income, typically financed with housing credits, bonds and public soft funds. Defined by who they serve, not by how they look.

02

Workforce Housing

Homes for the households a region’s economy depends on and the market has stopped building for: roughly 60% to 120% of area median income. Florida’s Live Local Act has made this category newly viable.

03

Mixed-Income Communities

Buildings where affordable, workforce and market-rate homes share one address, one standard of design and one management, so that affordability is invisible from the street.

Much of this work is delivered through public-private partnership. Cities & Housing Authorities

How We Develop

A disciplined path from site to stewardship.

Five stages, each ending in a decision. The specifics are the point: what happens, who is at the table, and what has to be true before the next stage begins.

  1. Site screening against zoning, transit, QCT/DDA status, Live Local eligibility and county programme fit; landowner and public-partner conversations begin.

    Decision at the end of the stage

    Is there a site and a public need that align?

    01 — Site planParcel, streets, setbacks and terrain: the site is screened before anything is drawn.

  2. Community meetings; alignment with the municipality’s housing plan; nonprofit or landowner objectives written into a term sheet before design.

    Decision at the end of the stage

    Do all parties want the same building?

    02 — The tableThe site at the centre; the city, the landowner, the community and our partners around it.

  3. Capital structure assembled from public and private sources; co-developer and guarantor roles fixed; design brief issued.

    Decision at the end of the stage

    Does the deal close on paper?

    03 — CapitalSources assembled into one structure. Illustrative; every project is different.

  4. Entitlement, design, procurement with independent quotes, construction governance, monthly reporting to partners.

    Decision at the end of the stage

    Is it built as underwritten?

    04 — SectionBuilt as underwritten: structure, floors and the work still to come.

  5. Compliance period management, resident services partners, long-term ownership posture, reporting to public partners.

    Decision at the end of the stage

    Is it still the building we promised in year fifteen?

    05 — ElevationThe occupied building, held and maintained for the long term.

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Housing gets built when the right parties sit at one table.

We would rather explain how a deal is structured than promise what it will return.

Northwind Development Group is the development affiliate of the Northwind platform.

Work in Progress

Projects are published when
our partners agree they should be.

We publish a project when our public and private partners agree it should be public. Until then, it is being worked on.

  1. 01

    Predevelopment

    Site control, entitlement and design. Capital not yet closed.

  2. 02

    Financing

    The capital structure is being assembled and closed.

  3. 03

    Under Construction

    Financing closed; the building is underway.

  4. 04

    Completed

    Delivered, leased and in long-term stewardship.

A concrete path curving beside a cypress pond under a stormy sky, with homes in the distance.
Cypress pond, Florida. Illustrative study image — not a Northwind project.

Community

Commitments, not claims.

Four commitments we can make before anything is built, each with the mechanism that makes it real.

  • Housing

    Homes sized for families, not just for the pro forma; durable materials specified for Florida’s climate.

  • Community

    Every project begins with the community meeting, not the rendering; resident services partners named before closing.

  • Sustainability

    Resilience first: elevation, envelope and energy standards written into the design brief; hurricane-rated construction as a baseline.

  • Opportunity

    Local hiring and small-contractor participation targets set per project with our public partners.

We will publish what we deliver against these commitments, project by project.

Development Capital

Complex capital. Simple objective.

Affordable housing is financed from several sources at once. Our work is to assemble them into one structure that closes, with every party’s obligations clear.

  1. Aligned capital, including the Northwind platform’s own, for the part of the structure that public sources do not reach.

  2. Private investment that becomes affordable housing because of federal housing credits. It requires long-term compliance and a sponsor who can carry the guarantees.

  3. State and local programmes, land, fee relief and tax exemptions that lower the cost of building what the market will not.

  4. Construction and permanent lending, often tax-exempt, sized to rents that are affordable by definition.

  5. Land from a church, a county or a housing authority: the contribution that makes the rest possible.

Illustrative. Every project’s structure is different.
Outline map of Florida showing its 67 county boundaries. No county is highlighted.
Florida, by county. No region is shaded: these are areas of focus, not a record of activity.

Geographic Focus

Florida first. The Southeast, selectively.

Our work is concentrated in Florida, where housing need, public partnership and our own presence meet. Beyond Florida we look at the Southeast one opportunity at a time, usually with a partner already there.

  • South Florida
  • Southwest Florida
  • Central Florida
  • Tampa Bay
  • Northeast Florida
  • The Southeast, selectively

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