bio

Natalie Bonnewit entered the real estate field in 1993 and has been developing affordable housing since 1999. She opened her consulting firm Bonnewit Development Services in 2006 to provide owner’s representative and project management, affordable housing planning services and policy advising to mission-driven and public clients including non-profit affordable housing developers, service providers, housing advocacy groups, local government and philanthropy. Natalie has developed approximately 2,000 units of permanent and transitional affordable housing units and emergency shelter beds throughout the Bay Area. In addition to working on individual housing developments, Natalie has expertise with military base reuse, large-scale redevelopment projects, and affordable housing policy. Natalie is currently working with the City of San Francisco Treasure Island Development Authority and the community-based organization One Treasure Island to plan for and develop up to 2,000 affordable and permanent supportive housing units on Treasure Island. She is also currently working with the Nonprofit Housing Association of Northern California to support member organization efforts to improve the Permanent Supportive Housing development ecosystem through full cost analysis and regulatory and legislative advocacy. Bonnewit Development Services is a certified Alameda County Small, Local, Emerging Business. Natalie is a former Urban and Regional Policy Fellow with the German Marshall Fund studying affordable housing models in Amsterdam and Copenhagen and is the board president of the East Bay Housing Organizations (EBHO). She holds a Master’s degree in City Planning from the University of California, Berkeley.