Kinsey Hasstedt

Programs, Director

Kinsey is a programs, director for state and local policy in Enterprise Community Partners’ Denver office. In this role, Kinsey crafts and oversees Enterprise’s policy agenda and advocacy to increase the supply of affordable homes and advance housing stability in Denver and throughout Colorado, with a focus on individuals and families living on low or fixed incomes. She collaborates with state and local elected officials and policymakers, implementing agencies, and partners including affordable housing developers, legal aid and rental assistance providers, and community-based organizations. Kinsey has authored multiple analyses of affordable housing policy and serves as a trusted resource for media and decisionmakers.

Before joining Enterprise in January 2020, Kinsey was a nationally recognized policy expert with the Washington, D.C.-based office of the Guttmacher Institute, a leading policy and research organization dedicated to advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights. Her commitment to advancing people's well-being and making communities more equitable started in her native Colorado, where served as the director of political affairs and outreach for Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains.

Kinsey graduated with a bachelor of science and a bachelor of arts from the University of Colorado at Boulder and also holds a master of public Health focusing on policy from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Phone Number
303.376.5413
Office Location

Denver
1700 Broadway
Denver, CO 80290

Story

Four Ways to Preserve Affordability While Increasing Colorado’s Home Supply

Across the country and in Colorado, we simply cannot build our way out of the affordable housing crisis. Preserving our supply of currently affordable homes is an essential strategy to one day ensure everyone can stably afford a home in their own community. In addition to building new homes, we must also preserve the affordability of currently affordable rental homes through recapitalization, acquisition, rehabilitation, and adaptive reuse.
Brief

Understanding Public Housing Resources and the Coloradans Who Most Need Market Interventions

April 5, 2023
This brief synthesizes the most recently available data to look at who faces the greatest barriers to affordable, stable housing across Colorado by aligning data on area median incomes (AMIs) with wages for various occupations in different areas of the state.