Housing Consulting & Development

Since 2008, The Luak Group has worked alongside Tribal Nations, Tribally Designated Housing Entities, and housing departments to strengthen housing systems, plan for community needs, support development projects, and improve long-term program performance across Indian Country.

Our work is grounded in tribal sovereignty, NAHASDA compliance, practical implementation, and the realities of operating housing programs with limited staff capacity, complex funding requirements, and increasing community demand. We understand that tribal housing is not only about building homes. It requires governance, planning, compliance, procurement, financial management, resident services, maintenance operations, workforce systems, capital readiness, and disciplined project delivery.

The Luak Group helps Tribes and TDHEs move from housing need to housing action by building the systems, tools, policies, workplans, and implementation structures needed to support sustainable housing outcomes.

Our objective is clear:

Bringing housing solutions to Indian Country.

The Luak Group provides comprehensive housing consulting services for Tribal Nations, TDHEs, housing authorities, and housing departments seeking to strengthen operations, improve compliance, and better serve Native families.

We help housing programs establish internal controls, clarify policies and procedures, improve documentation, prepare for monitoring, and align day-to-day operations with NAHASDA, ONAP, HUD, and 2 CFR Part 200 requirements.

Our housing consulting services include:

• NAHASDA and ONAP housing systems support
• Indian Housing Plan and Annual Performance Report planning
• Housing policy and procedure development
• Admissions and occupancy systems
• Procurement policy, documentation, and file structure support
• Self-monitoring and monitoring-readiness reviews
• Financial management coordination aligned with 2 CFR Part 200
• Housing operations and asset management support
• Board, executive director, staff, tenant, and community training
• Compliance tools, templates, checklists, and SOP development
• Corrective action planning and operational improvement support

Our goal is to leave each housing program with practical systems that staff can continue using after the engagement ends.

The Luak Group supports Tribal Nations and TDHEs through the planning, coordination, and implementation of housing development projects, including rental housing, homeownership, rehabilitation, elder housing, infrastructure, and community facility projects.

We work with housing departments, TDHEs, Tribal leadership, housing boards, architects, engineers, project managers, construction managers, developers, contractors, and funders to help ensure development projects remain aligned with the Tribe’s priorities, compliance obligations, approved scope, project budget, and implementation schedule.

Our housing development support may include:

• Predevelopment planning and project readiness assessment
• Development of housing project concepts and implementation structures
• Coordination between Tribal leadership, TDHE staff, and technical project teams
• Review of project scope, budget, phasing, and development assumptions
• Support with project schedules, milestones, and implementation sequencing
• Compliance coordination related to NAHASDA, 2 CFR Part 200, procurement, Davis-Bacon, environmental review, and reporting requirements
• Project documentation and file-readiness support
• Support for project modifications, scope adjustments, and closeout preparation
• Development of implementation tools for housing staff, leadership, and project teams

The Luak Group helps Tribal housing projects remain fundable, buildable, compliant, and administratively manageable from early planning through implementation.

The Luak Group provides a specialized form of owner’s representative support for Tribal housing capital projects by bridging the gap between the Tribe or TDHE, funder requirements, and construction teams.

This is not traditional construction management. Instead, this role focuses on grant-integrated project delivery—ensuring that the project scope, construction budget, implementation schedule, reporting requirements, cost categories, documentation systems, and compliance obligations remain aligned from predevelopment through closeout.

Many Tribal housing projects face challenges when the grant-funded scope does not match the construction budget, the implementation schedule does not reflect award conditions, or construction teams are not familiar with the reporting and compliance standards tied to federal funds. The Luak Group helps reduce those risks by translating funding requirements into practical project management tools that leadership, housing staff, and construction teams can use.

Our grant-integrated owner’s representative services may include:

• Liaison support between the Tribe, TDHE, architects, engineers, contractors, project managers, construction managers, and funders
• Alignment of project scope, budget, schedule, reporting, and compliance requirements
• Review and rebuilding of construction budgets to match funder formats, eligible activities, cost categories, and reporting needs
• Development of phased implementation schedules based on award requirements, procurement timelines, design readiness, environmental review, and construction sequencing
• Cost allocation structure and documentation support for projects using multiple funding sources
• Compliance-forward coordination to support accurate reporting and defensible documentation
• Early identification of scope, budget, schedule, or documentation variances
• Decision-support materials for Tribal leadership, housing boards, and executive staff
• Monitoring-ready file structure and closeout readiness support

This role helps prevent projects from drifting out of alignment with grant requirements. It reduces duplication, minimizes avoidable change orders, strengthens communication between technical teams and Tribal leadership, and protects the intended outcomes of grant-funded housing projects.

The primary deliverable is a grant-aligned project delivery package that may include an integrated scope, budget, schedule, phased implementation roadmap, cost allocation structure, reporting cadence, and monitoring-ready documentation framework.

The Luak Group helps Tribes and TDHEs assess housing needs, identify capacity gaps, evaluate existing systems, and develop practical workplans for strengthening housing operations and future development.

A strong housing strategy begins with a clear understanding of current conditions. This includes housing inventory, waiting lists, overcrowding, rehabilitation needs, infrastructure barriers, staffing capacity, internal controls, compliance risks, community priorities, and available funding resources.

Our capacity building and needs assessment services may include:

• Tribal housing needs assessments
• Community surveys, interviews, and listening sessions
• Review of housing inventory, waiting lists, occupancy trends, and maintenance needs
• Organizational capacity assessments for TDHEs and housing departments
• Review of staffing, workflows, policies, procurement, financial management, and reporting systems
• Identification of compliance gaps and operational risks
• Development of capacity-building workplans
• Prioritization of housing needs and development opportunities
• Implementation tools, templates, and checklists for housing staff and leadership

The result is a clear, actionable roadmap that helps Tribal leadership and housing staff make informed decisions about future housing priorities.

The Luak Group facilitates housing strategic planning processes that help Tribal Nations and TDHEs align their mission, vision, values, community needs, compliance responsibilities, and implementation capacity.

Our strategic planning process is designed to produce more than a planning document. We develop practical, implementation-ready roadmaps that identify goals, objectives, critical tasks, timelines, responsible parties, performance measures, and resource needs.

A typical housing strategic planning process includes three phases:

We review existing plans, policies, housing data, program documents, funding sources, compliance requirements, and community priorities. This phase may include interviews, surveys, listening sessions, document review, and organizational assessment.

We develop a strategic planning framework that includes goals, objectives, critical tasks, timelines, responsible parties, performance measures, funding considerations, and implementation priorities.

We provide tools and recommendations to help the Tribe or TDHE move the plan into action. This may include workplans, reporting templates, policy recommendations, board-ready materials, funding-readiness considerations, and accountability systems.

Our housing strategic plans are designed to be practical, measurable, funder-aware, and aligned with the Tribe’s long-term vision for housing and community development.

The Luak Group supports Tribal Nations and TDHEs at every stage of the housing lifecycle, including needs assessment, strategic planning, policy development, housing operations, development readiness, project coordination, compliance, implementation, and closeout.

Our role is to help Tribal housing programs build strong internal systems, protect sovereignty, reduce compliance risk, and deliver housing projects that meet the needs of Native families for generations to come.