Trullo Development & Consulting

Sonya Falcone has spent her career on both sides of the table — as a developer building affordable housing from the ground up, and as a consultant helping other mission-driven teams do the same.

Sonya co-founded Daylight Community Development, an LA-based affordable housing development group, when she was pursuing her MBA at the UCLA Anderson School of Management. Daylight leveraged the confluence of newly available entitlement tools and unprecedented City investment in affordable housing to launch 8 projects. Between 2019 and 2025, she and her team closed 8 construction loans, 7 of them LIHTC projects. Most recently, she closed financing for Rosa’s Place, a 97-unit permanent supportive housing project Daylight co-developed with the Downtown Women’s Center. Rosa’s Place combines unique, low-cost financing from Apple with 4% Low Income Housing Tax Credits, project-based vouchers, and commitments from LAHD, AHSC, and IIG to provide permanent housing to survivors of domestic violence. The project is expected to complete construction in 2027.

In 2024, Sonya founded her independent development and consulting practice, Trullo Development & Consulting. In addition to pursuing independent development projects, Trullo brings Sonya’s hands-on experience on the development side to other mission-driven teams working to meet their affordable housing goals. Sonya holds a BA from Colgate University and an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management, where she was a Forte Fellow.