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, project management, affordable housing planning and policy services to mission-driven and public clients including non-profit affordable housing developers, service providers, housing advocacy groups, local government and philanthropy. 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. Her policy paper can be found here: Affordable Housing in Amsterdam and Copenhagen: Lessons for the San Francisco Bay Area.