Ally Community Development

Your ally in housing and community facility development

Testimonials

“Ally is a firm with a depth of knowledge and development skill. They are nimble and capable of a variety of scales of development projects. It’s been a pleasure to work with them on many projects where their combination of financial and project management expertise has been invaluable to the project’s success.”

Roger Tucker
Executive Director
Environmental Works Community Design Center

“Working with Ally Community Development has enabled the all-volunteer team at Housing Lopez to successfully compete for critical funding sources and move our project forward quickly and professionally.  Philippa understands the constraints of developing affordable housing on a small rural island and has brought valuable resources and expertise to the project.  Her relationships and long time in the field makes the development process possible for a small organization like ours.” 

Melora Hill
Fundraising and Marketing Director
Housing Lopez

“I’ve worked with Ally since their inception and have been impressed by the depth of experience they bring to the table, their established relationships with funders and other development stakeholders and their commitment to a set of social goals similar to those held by Solid Ground. The Ally staff make up a talented team who clearly know their way around affordable housing development and project management.”

Humberto Alvarez
Planning and Development Director
Solid Ground, Seattle
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“I worked with Philippa on financing of our first Low Income Housing Tax Credit project and am now working with her on our second one.  The first time around, I thought our organization would only do one Tax Credit project in a decade, so I wanted an expert to guide us. In a surprise twist, we are pursuing another Tax Credit project just a few years later and I knew I wanted to work with her again. She is thoughtful, knowledgeable, steady, and creative. A great combo! “

Lisa Byers
Executive Director
OPAL community Land Trust 
 

“Our organization has worked with Ally on several projects.  The most recent was a financially difficult structure involving a mixture of 4 % and 8% tax credits on two buildings sharing space.  Phillipa and her crew at Ally have an amazing grasp of detail and without their services the project would not have come into being. Highly recommend.” 

Chris Szala
Executive Director
Community House