Community Development

Enterprise is an intermediary under the Section 4 Capacity Building for Affordable Housing and Community Development program (Section 4), funded by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and our vision is a country where home and community are steppingstones to more.

Nine neighborhoods across seven states are part of the $180 million Fifth Third Empowering Black Futures Neighborhood Program.

Enterprise Community Partners and Housing Partnership Network are working together to launch a series of white papers Advancing Opportunity Through Affordable Housing. With contributions from the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at the University of California at Berkeley, the series focuses on accelerating promising ideas to address longstanding community development challenges in the current environment.

The Pacific Northwest Rural Rental Housing Preservation Academy is a series of no-cost training and peer learning sessions designed to help rural housing providers and nonprofits acquire and/or preserve USDA Rural Development, HUD 811 and 202, LIHTC and other subsidized and affordable housing in rural Washington and Oregon communities.

This report on Enterprise’s Collaborative Action grants documents the genesis and evolution of the program, shares case studies and captures lessons and recommendations.

This introduction to The Healing-Centered Community Development Framework provides the context for why a healing-centered approach is essential to successful community development and defines core principles and strategies for centering healing.

This webinar unpacks the breakthrough, research-based pre-development practice for enhancing the impact of housing on residents and communities: Project Mission Statements.

The Housing Affordability Breakthrough Challenge launched with the goal to identify, accelerate and scale innovative housing affordability solutions.

Through effective partnerships and informed decision-making processes, faith-based organizations (FBOs) who own underutilized or vacant property are able to repurpose their property to create affordable homes and public benefit. This resource assists FBOs and community stakeholders interested in advancing this strategy with understanding what it takes to successfully and effectively implement this solution and the different implementation approaches that can be pursued.

This report, the third in the Promoting Opportunity through eTOD research series, provides stakeholders involved in achieving eTOD, such as public entities, developers and practitioners, guidance on understanding and benefitting from federal transportation policies and programs.