Policy Development and Research

Enterprise conducted this insurance analysis to raise awareness to the consequences of the insurance crisis on the Gulf Coast affordable housing industry and the critical need to mobilize action at the state and federal levels.

“Making it Happen” is a series of issue briefs that explore recent successes in scaling affordable housing innovations by addressing regulatory and financing barriers to these innovations.

This issue brief, the second in a series, focuses on opportunities to scale affordable housing innovations. Enterprise highlights regulatory reforms that would make it easier to leverage off-site construction and opportunities to tailor financing products to its unique needs.

This paper provides an overview of the history, operation, and current debates around the Housing Choice Voucher program, the federal government's largest form of rental assistance.

In Preparing Receiving Communities for Climate Migrations, Enterprise outlines steps policymakers at the federal, state and local level can take to help receiving communities address the impacts of climate migrations.

Explore the potential positive outcomes of allowing low-density multifamily (LDMF) development in areas previously reserved for single-family development, as well as prominent regulatory and financing challenges to creating LDMF housing.

This white paper examines the opportunities and challenges of converting strip malls to affordable housing and highlights two successful examples from New York and California.

“Making it Happen” is a series of issue briefs that explore recent successes in scaling affordable housing innovations by addressing regulatory and financing barriers to these innovations. The first in the series, this issue brief lays out recent progress in bringing Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) development to scale.

The harms exacted by the eviction process expand well beyond America’s families. Eviction has exceedingly destabilized the affordable housing industry at large, exacting a financial toll on the very developers and owners needed to preserve and expand the limited supply of subsidized, affordable housing.

This August, we at Enterprise Community Partners presented our comments on the proposed rulemaking changes to the Community Reinvestment Act, the 1977 law that was designed to undo the racist underinvestment in low-income and communities of color.