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Real estate and infrastructure investments shape how people live, work, commute, and connect. Affordable housing reduces financial anxiety. Well-designed buildings improve health outcomes. Transport infrastructure changes access to opportunity. SVT produces person-level evidence of the social value your assets generate for occupants, users, and surrounding communities.
The market is shifting. Investors, tenants, regulators, and the public increasingly demand evidence that assets contribute to society - not just financial returns. But current approaches to social measurement in real estate are inadequate:
The result: ESG reports quote social metrics that cannot be traced to a clear pathway, set apart from competitor claims, or defended under investor scrutiny.
We quantify the social value a specific asset generates for its occupants or users - modelled person by person. Not borrowed values from a database. Not averages from another jurisdiction. Evidence built from the conditions, people, and pathways relevant to your asset.
For affordable and social housing, we compare occupants' wellbeing - from below-market rents, secure tenancy, and housing quality - with what would likely have happened under market-rate housing insecurity.
For asset managers with multiple properties: we produce portfolio-level social value evidence showing comparative social return across assets, geographies, and occupant demographics.
SVT evidence meets the rigour required for ESG reporting frameworks. It is quantified, clear about its assumptions, traceable to pathways, and independently verifiable - giving social metrics the same credibility as financial metrics.
Before committing to a development: model the expected social value of proposed designs, locations, or tenant compositions. Compare scenarios to identify which configurations generate the greatest social return.
Real estate social value involves multiple interacting domains: housing cost, income, health, commute time, community access, employment, and social connection. These interact - a rent reduction changes disposable income, which changes consumption, which changes stress, which changes health.
Fragmented methods estimate each domain separately and add them up. This creates:
ONEMODEL keeps these topics in one model, so it can show how they interact, prevent the same benefit being counted twice, and reveal which groups benefit most. The evidence holds together under challenge because it came from one connected model.
In a market where every developer claims "social impact":
SVT gives you evidence that is specific to your asset, your occupants, and your context. That specificity is what differentiates a credible social claim from a marketing assertion.
Below-market rents in a major Canadian real estate portfolio generated about $12,800 in social value per tenant in 2024 - $45 million across 19 buildings, and about $688 million over 20 years.
Source: Social Value of Below-Market Rents, CANCEA, 2024.
The strongest GTHA public housing pathway generated about $48.3 billion in social value - showing who gains and who is most at risk under each funding choice.
Source: The Public Housing Dividend, CANCEA, 2026.
A proposed Ontario pumped hydro storage project was estimated to create about $450 million in social value for Ontarians, concentrated in rural communities and households with children.
Source: Made-in-Ontario Pumped Hydro Storage, CANCEA, 2024.
"Social impact" asserted without measurement reads as marketing, and sophisticated investors discount it.
Competitors using the same transferred database numbers look identical to you - your genuine impact does not stand out.
As ESG and social-infrastructure scrutiny tightens, unevidenced claims become a liability rather than a differentiator.
We assess your asset or portfolio, identify measurement objectives, and review available data.
We define the occupant population, comparison scenarios, and social value channels to model.
ONEMODEL estimates how occupants' wellbeing changes over time, compared with what would likely have happened without the asset.
Evidence report: social value per occupant, who benefits most across groups, the pathways driving the value, and sensitivity.
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