Christopher Laurent

Mr. Laurent is a recognized leader in community-led real estate, housing finance, and catalytic development with a strong focus on implementation and development of innovative, targeted, quality, affordable housing throughout the nation. He is president of a nonprofit real estate development company and serves as adjunct faculty for Milwaukee School of Engineering and Marquette University. Mr. Laurent built his career bringing together talented people with initially opposing skills and perspectives to produce well-designed, compelling places that people live and work. He gets his greatest enjoyment in helping to bring out the best work people can offer. Strong communication skills, graphics/marketing skills, innovative financial modeling acumen, and a keen sense of design all combine with an innate desire to make things distinctive, to make them better. Mr. Laurent’s specialties include negotiation, communication, government liaison, financial analysis, architectural and construction oversight, affordable housing, project management, collaboration, coaching, mentorship, team-building, nonprofit leadership and development, strategic thinking, LIHTCs, NMTCs, debt, equity, soft financing tools, and tax increment financing (TIF).