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Jeanhy Shim
Crosswalk Communities
Jeanhy Shim is a strategic and creative city building advisor, changemaker and entrepreneur. For the past 30 years, she has been working in the real estate development industry in the Greater Toronto Region, providing a wide range of strategic development advisory services, including land acquisition, market research, project feasibility, master-planning, product design development, marketing strategy and sales launch services. Currently, Jeanhy is President of Housing Lab Toronto – an independent housing market research firm, and Partner in PMA360 – a full-service development advisory practice.
Jeanhy is also the Founder and CEO of Crosswalk Communities – a not-for-profit affordablehousing development company using an innovative new business model to build affordable rental apartments for lower income Canadians, including essential workers, newcomers, single parent families, adults with disabilities, youth and seniors.
In her community, Jeanhy currently serves on the Board of Directors of Waterfront Toronto, andpreviously served on the Board of Directors of Woodgreen Community Services and co-founded the Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee at the Urban Land Institute Toronto chapter.
On a personal note, Jeanhy grew up in north Toronto’s Rexdale neighbourhood, but left home to earn an undergraduate degree from McGill University in Montreal, Quebec and a Master’sdegree from the London School of Economics and Political Science in London, England.