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Home is where life happens, and futures begin.

Yet millions of families can’t afford a place to call home. The system doesn’t work – it must be changed by us.

About

Our mission is to make home and community places of pride, power,
and belonging.

Our Goals

Increase Housing Supply
Advance Racial Equity
Build Resilience & Upward Mobility

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Increase Housing Supply

We invest in and advocate for the preservation and production of good homes people can afford.

Development

Financing for Developers

Products for Investors

Policy

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Advance Racial Equity

After decades of systematic racism in housing, racial equity is at the center of our work.

Equitable Path Forward

Justice Involved Homes

Rural and Native American

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Build Resilience and Upward Mobility

We support residents and strengthen communities to be resilient to the unpredictable and make upward mobility possible.

Building Resilient Futures

Green Communities

Upward Mobility

Our Impact

Celebrating 1 million homes

Since 1982, we’ve invested $72 billion and created 1,000,000 homes in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Join us to make our greatest impact yet.

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HELPED CREATE and PRESERVE

1M homes

Up against a massive shortage, we increase the supply of affordable rental homes for millions of families.

EXPERIENCE

42 years

We have decades of real-life experience to draw from in our on-the-ground work with our partners.

INVESTED

$72 billion

We aggregate and invest billions to improve housing and strengthen communities across the U.S.

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Building Momentum

Shaun Donovan, our CEO and president, shares his vision to shape a powerful new moment and movement for affordable housing as he begins year two.

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The Jim Rouse legacy is now one million homes

The Baltimore Sun reflects on the impact our founder has had on communities across the country, calling on others to build on what he started as we tackle our national housing shortage.

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Community Green

Featured Program

Power Forward Communities

Power Forward Communities, the landmark coalition that Enterprise co-leads with some of the country’s most trusted community development, climate, and housing organizations, has been awarded a $2 billion National Clean Investment Fund grant to make America’s homes healthier, more resilient, and more affordable.

Learn more about this unprecedented effort to equitably decarbonize potentially millions of homes through programming and financial supports that will ensure no community is left behind in the clean- energy transition.

NEWS
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Funder Spotlight

Wells Fargo Foundation

With the Wells Fargo Foundation’s support, the $20 million Housing Affordability Breakthrough Challenge is helping to advance and propel innovative, implementation-ready solutions across the United States.

Creating true equity in the nation’s housing system requires a focus on transformative ideas that challenge current housing practices and processes.

STACY SPANN, HEAD OF HOUSING ACCESS AND AFFORDABILITY PHILANTHROPY, WELLS FARGO FOUNDATION

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We are here for impact. Join us.

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Investor Spotlight

Veris Wealth Partners

Veris Wealth Partners serves as an investment advisor to endowments, foundations, and high-net worth individuals and families with the aim of meeting both their financial and impact investing goals. Through the Enterprise Community Loan Fund, Veris’ clients have been able to invest in communities throughout the US to align their investment with their mission.

The Enterprise Community Impact Note is an intentional and innovative solution that allows our clients the ability to allocate their capital to advance racial equity and provide access to affordable housing, healthcare, and education in under resourced communities.

Roraj Pradhananga, Co-CIO, Veris Wealth Partners

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Enterprise Community Impact Note

Offers a unique opportunity to make socially responsible investments that change lives today – while earning a financial return.*

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* The Enterprise Community Impact Notes are unsecured debt securities subject to terms, conditions and risks, described in our prospectus, including the risk of possible loss of the amount invested. Payment is dependent on Enterprise Community Loan Fund’s financial condition at the time payment is due. This is not an offer to sell you our securities and we are not soliciting you to buy our securities. We will offer and sell our securities only in states where authorized. The offering is made solely by the prospectus, which should be read before investing. The Enterprise Community Impact Notes are not FDIC or SIPC insured.

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