With 25 years of experience in the real estate industry, Ms. Sweet has played a vital role as consultant to both private and public sector clients by providing a range of services, including planning, market research, feasibility analysis, financial structuring, land use and permitting, team building and project management. The majority of Ms. Sweet’s work currently services the housing, senior living and affordable housing industries.

Ms. Sweet is a certified member of the National Council of Affordable Housing Market Analysts and a long-standing member of the Newton Housing Partnership. She also serves on the Board of Directors of Second Step, who provides housing and services to survivors of domestic violence and their children.

Ms. Sweet is a member of the Citizens Housing and Planning Association (“CHAPA”), the Urban Land Institute and the American Planning Association, among other affiliations. She is a frequent lecturer and author on housing and healthcare matters and is often consulted as a spokesperson on the affordable housing and assisted living industries.

Before founding LDS Consulting Group, Ms. Sweet held senior positions with BRFG Consulting Group, Inc. of Boston, as well as Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. of Boston. She established the Senior Housing Strategies Group at BRFG Consulting and managed the group for three years while providing project management services, including market research and financial structuring.

At the law firm of Mintz Levin, Ms. Sweet represented real estate developers, owners and lenders as she worked on all phases of real estate acquisitions, financings and workouts for office, medical, multi-family housing and retail properties. She worked with conventional commercial lenders and public and quasi/public lending agencies on a variety of programs, including those that used historic and low income tax credits, taxable and tax-free bonds and operating subsidies.

Ms. Sweet has sat on the steering committee of New England Women in Real Estate ("NEWIRE"), is a past director of the Massachusetts Assisted Living Facilities Association ("MASS-ALFA") and the Rhode Island Assisted Living Facilities Association ("RIALA"), and sat on the Board of Advisors to MASS-ALFA and the Affordability Task Force.

In 2003, she was asked by the Governor’s office to be an active observer on the Commonwealth’s Chapter 40B Task Force, and she was part of a Technical Assistance Panel for the Urban Land Institute, Boston for the Milton Village/Central Avenue Revitalization Committee.

She authored several chapters of "Assisted Living in Nursing Homes," published in 1999 by the Assisted Living Federation of America, and co-authored a study in 1999 by MASS-ALFA, "Expanding Access to Assisted Living in Massachusetts: Five Development Models of Affordability."

Lynne received the Community Involvement Award from CREW Network for her role in creating the NEWIRE Small Business and Entrepreneurial Exchange.

She holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Babson College’s F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business in Wellesley, MA.

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