Ayrianne Parks

Sr. Director, Policy Advocacy

Ayrianne Parks is the senior director of policy advocacy at Enterprise, where she oversees the organization’s tax policy team. In addition to leading Enterprise’s policy advocacy on the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit, New Markets Tax Credit, Neighborhood Homes Investment Act and Opportunity Zones, she manages membership and legislative advocacy coordination for the ACTION Campaign, a grassroots coalition of 2,400 organizations co-chaired by Enterprise and the National Council of State Housing Agencies.
 
Prior to joining Enterprise, Ayrianne served as the director of policy and public affairs at Rapoza Associates, a public interest lobbying firm specializing in community and economic development. A skilled legislative and communications expert, she previously advocated for labor rights and workforce development for migrant and seasonal farmworkers at the Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs, served as a public affairs manager at the Curley Company, and coordinated women’s specialty media for the 2008 Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, in addition to internships on Capitol Hill and with the Sierra Club’s legislative office. Ayrianne holds a bachelor’s degree in political science and Spanish from Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota. 

Phone Number
202.403.8001
Office Location

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

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A Bid to Make New Markets Tax Credit Permanent

Lawmakers have introduced bipartisan legislation that would make the New Markets Tax Credit a permanent part of the tax code, solidifying a program that has supported more than 8,500 business and community-driven projects and created more than a million jobs across the country since it was created in 2000.
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Expanding Equity in Real Estate Development

The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit, otherwise known as the Housing Credit, is the nation’s number one tool for financing the production and preservation of affordable rental homes. So how can we expand access to this crucial tool for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) and other historically marginalized housing providers?