Melissa of Quirk Planning Solutions offers her clients her 25 years of experience working at the intersection of affordable multifamily housing policy, strategy development, program design, and management. As a senior leader in local governments and nonprofit housing agencies, Melissa has crafted strategies to further equitable housing access, funding, policy, and planning decisions impacting low-income households and to reversing historical bias in planning. Her areas of expertise include public-private sector collaborations, intergovernmental cooperation mechanisms, innovative program design and implementation, legislative and regulatory analysis and advocacy, coalition building for nonprofits, plan and policy drafting, needs assessments, project management, and grant administration.

Deep expertise in these issue areas: Advocacy, City & State Government, Homelessness, Housing