Alexa Rosenberg

Senior Director, Programs

Alexa Rosenberg is senior director, programs, at Enterprise Community Partners. She co-leads Enterprise’s economic mobility initiatives, focused on the nexus between housing and mobility from poverty. She brings 15 years of experience in urban planning, affordable housing and comprehensive community development. With a dual focus on equity and impact, Alexa promotes change through intentional, collaborative problem-solving and engagement. 

Prior to joining Enterprise in 2017, Alexa held a variety of positions at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). As a presidential management fellow, she helped create the Office of Strategic Planning and Management, and then spent four years in the Choice Neighborhoods program, supporting grantees, leading performance measurement and management, and driving internal and external collaboration. In her last role at HUD, she served as senior advisor to the principal deputy assistant secretary for community planning and development, overseeing administration of federal block grant funding for community development, homelessness assistance, affordable housing, and disaster recovery.

Alexa began her career in nonprofit community development organizations in Senegal, West Africa; Trenton, New Jersey; and Brooklyn, New York. She has a B.A. in Development Studies from Brown University and a master’s degree in City Planning (MCP) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Phone Number
202.407.8717
Office Location

Washington, D.C.
10 G Street NE
Washington, DC 20002

Blog

Exploring the Potential of Direct Rental Assistance

Direct rental assistance (DRA), or cash-based rental assistance is a model that's pushing rental systems in a new direction, says the University of Pennsylvania's Vincent Reina. We spoke to Reina about the history of DRA and how to ensure it's part of a larger constellation of support for families in need.
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We Won’t Achieve School Equity if We Don’t Tackle Housing Segregation

School desegregation efforts haven’t been durable because we have failed to tackle the root cause – residential segregation, the undone work of the civil rights movement. A new report from the Urban Institute funded by Enterprise draws a through-line between discriminatory housing practices and school inequities, and identifies strategies to address school segregation.