Accelerate. Professionalize. Empower.

Élan by ACHAT is a hub of expertise in collective housing, with the mission to accelerate the professionalization of nonprofit organizations committed to delivering and managing a constant supply of housing units in a generational pact and territorial development logic.

Our Services Across Five Pillars

Pillar 1 – Organizational Growth and Professionalization

• Organizational assessment
• Advisory support for designing, approving, financing, and implementing an organizational development plan
• Training and support for boards of directors
• Review and modernization of bylaws and organizational policies

Pillar 2 – Real Estate Development

• Capital sourcing and identification of additional financing levers
• Pooled opportunities – project pipeline
• Opportunity analysis support
• Advisory support for renovations, maintenance, and ecological optimization
• Support for straightforward acquisitions (purchase–renovate)
• Support for new construction projects

Pillar 3 – Merger / Consolidation / Turnaround / Succession

• Turnaround support for struggling non-profit housing organizations
• Assistance with board member recruitment
• Support for merger or consolidation initiatives
• Optimization of group legal structures

Pillar 4 – Public and Government Relations

• Advisory support – Advocacy communications
• Advisory support – Reputation and crisis management
• Advisory support – Representation planning
• Advisory support – Media relations

Pillar 5 - Urban Planning (upcoming)

Community of practice

Our approach is collaborative and based on trust. We facilitate and document several communities of practice in collective real estate, through which expert employees from our members organizations share know-how and field experience. Certain specialized studies commissioned by ACHAT can sometimes complement the work of the various permanent or ad hoc group.

• Property management
• Real estate development
• Real estate law
• Citizen mobilization
• Advocacy communication
• Rendez-vous des Allié.e.s - expanded community of practice
• Board Chairs’ Luncheon - coming soon

Housing Intelligence and Communications

• Weekly media monitoring
• Visibility for organizational achievements
• Events
• Public consultations, legislative initiatives, and public policy processes (across all levels of government)