Policy Development and Research

Analyses of Census data used to identify and classify counties that lost housing between 2010 and 2020, and their implications for future housing policy.

Enterprise submitted comments on the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s Request for Input (RFI) regarding Fannie Mae’s and Freddie Mac’s required Equitable Housing Finance Plans.

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.

This white paper identifies opportunities and barriers to bringing accessory dwelling unit (ADU) development to scale to boost affordability and diversity in housing options, especially in predominantly single-family zoned neighborhoods. Our research examines both regulatory and financial barriers to increasing “gentle density” and offers recommendations for addressing these problems.

Cities are not homogeneous by race and ethnicity, however, with some neighborhoods still majority non-Hispanic white. Nor are changes within these neighborhoods consistent; for example, those that have experienced gentrification – or the in-migration of higher-income households into traditionally low-income communities – likely have different patterns of racial change than non-gentrified neighborhoods, given inequalities in income distributions across households by race and ethnicity.

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 white paper explores where the use of off-site construction techniques can boost the creation of subsidized housing and create cost savings for market-rate developers, which can help expand the supply of homes and ultimately enable homeowners and tenants to benefit from these benefits by lowering their housing costs, and what kinds of changes to the regulatory and financing systems could scale the use of off-site construction.

The Gentrification Comparison Tool maps neighborhoods in 93 U.S. cities over four decades by their gentrification status under three different definitions.

This paper is the first in a series that looks at gentrification and its implications for policymaking. It highlights the importance of measurement to framing our perceptions about gentrification and its consequences. Subsequent papers will demonstrate the extent of overlap between different measures, and the intersections of gentrification and education policy decisions.

Building on previous Enterprise research, this case study addresses six challenges associated with the publicly owned parcel development process in Washington State’s Puget Sound region. It provides recommendations aimed at helping the region’s public agencies expand their efforts to coordinate and ensure effective policies and adequate resources are in place to facilitate more equitable development on publicly owned parcels