Graham Singh is Founder and CEO of Relèven, a Canadian charity and fund manager that transforms underused faith-owned properties into affordable housing and community infrastructure across Canada. Relèven’s team from the property finance, urbanism, social innovation and faith sectors works alongside congregations, denominations and municipalities to reposition church real estate as a civic asset, releasing hundreds of millions of dollars in property value back to local communities.
Graham leads Relèven’s national initiatives, including SPREIIT (the Social Purpose Real Estate Impact Investing Trust) and the Winnipeg Declaration, which bring together denominations, cities, funders and financial institutions to grow the pool of social-purpose lending and philanthropic capital available for non-market housing. His work sits squarely at the intersection this session explores: how faith and non- profit real estate, paired with the right financing tools, can help close the gap left by the wind-down of public housing programs and expand Canada’s supply of affordable, supportive housing.
Graham is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario (Huron College), the London School of Economics, St Mellitus College & Cambridge University, Asbury Theological Seminary, and the Saïd Business School at Oxford University. He is an ordained Anglican Church minister and a professional member of Canada’s heritage community, CAHP | ACECP. His work has been published or covered in Municipal World, the Canadian Urban Institute, CBC, CTV, the Montreal Gazette, the Edmonton Journal, the Anglican Journal, and 100 Huntley Street, among others.
