About Us

HDAdvisors (HDA) is a collaboration of experienced community development professionals launched in 2006. HDA provides housing-related consulting services to non-profits, housing authorities, local governments, lenders, and other community development organizations. HDA is led by Erica Sims, who has spent 20 years in affordable development as both a developer and consultant. 
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HDA provides feasibility, financial and development consulting services for affordable housing and other community development projects. HDA is unique because its principals have spent decades as the heads of for-profit and non-profit development corporations and policy organizations in multiple states, building new construction and rehabilitation projects for affordable housing.
 
This experience gives us an intimate knowledge of federal and local housing programs and what “works” and what does not. This development experience enables HDA to understand housing policy from the perspective of a practitioner in the private sector, to assist clients in creating projects that are workable in the real world. Our work includes:

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• Community Land Trusts

• Data visualization

• Due diligence and project feasibility

• Financial structuring

• Fund development and strategy

• Fractional C-suite staffing

• Housing needs assessments

• Housing program and policy design, evaluation and implementation

• Housing research

• Land Banks

• Neighborhood and project strategies / Community engagement

• Mixed use buildings / Mixed income strategies

• Real estate development planning

• Survey design and implementation

• Tax credit strategies

  • Low-Income Housing Tax Credits​

  • Historic Tax Credits

  • New Market Tax Credits