Ashana Taylor

Bywater Development Group

Bywater Development Group specializes in developing, planning, financing, and implementing transformative affordable housing developments throughout the mid-western and southern regions of the United States. We cultivate partnerships with communities, working together to achieve local community development goals through our focus on the preservation and re-positioning of existing affordable housing—and the development of new affordable and mixed-income housing for families and seniors. The Bywater Team possesses a wide range of experience, talent, and dedication in all aspects of the affordable housing development industry. Utilizing our skills in structured finance, project planning, construction oversight, and asset management—along with a diligent work ethic—we strive to undertake developments that become real assets to the communities in which they are located. Bywater Development Group's core values include: 1. Effective Partnering—focus on listening, and a collaborative and inclusionary approach 2. Good Ideas—creatively utilize structured finance and other tools to address community goals 3. Exceptional Planning/Design—leadership in sustainable, walkable, asset-based development 4. Strong Teams—cultivation of high-performing teams that include local professionals 5. Informed Decisions—information and data-driven analysis and decision-making 6. Meaningful Goals—achievement of outcomes that make communities demonstrably better