Heather is a city builder with a passion for social purpose real estate and sustainable development. She is a champion of affordable home ownership and has helped achieve change to both public policy and funding in support of this segment of the housing spectrum.

Heather is the CEO of Options for Homes, an organization that uses an innovative financial model to help low and moderate income families become homeowners.  Under Heather’s leadership, Options has become Canada’s largest developer of affordable ownership housing and has grown its development pipeline to $1 billion.

Before joining Options, Heather founded and led Urban Fabric Group, a strategic real estate and development consultancy to non-profits. She is also the co-founder and CEO of reSource Rethinking Building, a Vancouver-based green building consulting and development company .

Heather has a Masters’ degree in Architecture from the University of British Columbia and an undergraduate degree in Political Science from McMaster University. From 2008-2009, she was a Loeb Fellow at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design and a Visiting Fellow at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.