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Louise Elving is a principal of VIVA Consulting, and has 35 years’ experience in developing housing, community revitalization projects, and administration of nonprofit organizations. She provides development advice on affordable, mixed-income housing and community facilities, as well as capacity-building services to both profit and nonprofit organizations. She also assists both public agencies and nonprofits with program design in such areas as homeownership support, lending, real estate development, and public housing. This work includes research on best practices and benchmarking analysis.
Previously, for 21 years, Elving was vice president for housing development at The Community Builders, Inc., one of the country’s largest nonprofit firms offering a full range of professional real estate services in property development and management, planning, human services and law. She has directed more than 40 real estate projects, creating new homes for 3,700 households serving families with children, the elderly, people with special needs and homeless individuals. She has also managed comprehensive community rebuilding programs that leverage large-scale residential redevelopment to improve social services, schools, recreation and public facilities.
Elving has consulted internationally on the design and implementation of the US/China Housing Demonstration Programs in Shanghai and Beijing and on mixed-income housing programs in Botswana, Africa. She is also a Lecturer in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has an MCP from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an MA from University of Chicago and an undergraduate degree from Cornell University.
