A fire ejected Home Ownership Alternatives, along with its newly appointed CEO, from their Queen Street East offices over the Victoria Day weekend.
They’ve since relocated to 2300 Yonge Street until their old offices can be rehabilitated from the
water damage. It’s an extra challenge for their newly appointed CEO, Jens Lohmueller, the Hamburg native and graduate of the University of Western Ontario who just took over the organization.
It’s a relatively small one compared to his larger brief, which is to expand
HOA out of Ontario and into Vancouver and even Africa.
"We've already had to make little tweaks to accommodate partners -- cities, towns and regions -- so I think there will be an ability to change as we go along," he says.
It will be a massive change for the organization, which has a staff of, in Lohmueller’s words, "four or five."
Though their focus will remain on families, Lohmueller says that could change in the future, implying that they might take up the Artscape model and get into making office and studio space affordable in similar ways to their current down payment-loan system for homeowners across southern Ontario.
Writer: Bert Archer
Source: Jens Lohmueller
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