Housing Stability

Archway Communities is a Colorado-based nonprofit that has provided affordable housing and resident services for over 50 years. Recognizing the critical importance of preserving the affordability of units serving low-income seniors in a high-demand area, Archway moved quickly to renovate Downing Square.

East Colfax Community Collective (EC3) is a grassroots organization working to stabilize rents and prevent displacement in Denver’s East Colfax neighborhood—a historically diverse community facing rapid change. In September 2024, EC3 purchased 1371 Xenia, which is home to some of the neighborhood’s most vulnerable residents. Immediately after closing, EC3 and a resident-led stewardship committee identified urgent repair priorities.

Enterprise has created issue briefs and case studies that look at the market challenges, policy barriers, and best practices in preserving affordable homes in Colorado.

The Home Trust of Ouray County learned about a unique preservation opportunity. The Ouray Sixplex, one of the few remaining unrestricted affordable rental properties in Ouray, offered rents far below market rate. HTOC quickly mobilized to preserve these permanently affordable homes.

Five case studies that look at individual acquisitions and preservation of affordable homes in Colorado.

This report from Enterprise and the National Equity Fund highlights the distress in New York's affordable housing stock and what solutions stakeholders must take to reverse it.

This report studies the physical conditions of 20 aging permanent supportive housing properties in Los Angeles.

In this virtual panel, housing providers shared three effective models of affordable housing preservation—also known as acquisition-rehab—successfully implemented in the South Bay.

Read our 2024 annual report to see the breadth and impact of our work – and the people, places, and partners Enterprise CEO and President Shaun Donovan encountered as he traveled from Baltimore to Boise, from Detroit to Denver, from tribal communities to rural towns.