Toolkit
Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) Toolkit
February 22, 2018
The Rental Assistance Demonstration helps preserve public housing by enabling public housing agencies to access new sources of funding to complete renovations and to preserve the buildings as affordable for the long term. The tools below are intended to empower and engage residents as their buildings go through the RAD conversion process to ensure the best possible outcomes.
Brief
Preserving Permanent Supportive Housing in Los Angeles: What Will It Take?
February 12, 2018
This white paper examines the challenges and opportunities to preserving permanent supportive housing (PSH) in Los Angeles County as well as provide public policy recommendations to ensure that this housing serves as an integral step in the region’s long-term goal of ending homelessness.
Toolkit
Joint Venture Guidebook: A Resource for Developing Affordable and Supportive Housing
January 29, 2018
A guidebook for organizations interested in partnering to develop affordable and supportive housing to better understand joint venture options. Includes 11 case studies of actual transactions.
Report
Public Benefit from Publicly Owned Parcels: Advancing Implementation in the Puget Sound Region
September 27, 2017
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
Report
Health Action Plan Pilot Program Process Evaluation
July 20, 2017
An evaluation of the process by which affordable housing developers use public health data and forge the key partnerships necessary to create a Health Action Plan and a Monitoring and Implementation Plan, the two components of Optional Criterion 1.2b
Training
Section 4 Tutorial: Grant Eligibility Requirements
May 1, 2017
This brief tutorial addresses the grant eligibility requirements that organizations need to meet in order to apply for and receive Section 4 funding from Enterprise.
Report
Measuring the Impact of Affordable Housing Interventions
April 20, 2017
This report highlights lessons learned during the design and initial implementation phases of the study of green building practices, explores the challenges encountered, and identifies key strategies used to overcome those challenges.
Report
Understanding the Small and Medium Multifamily Housing Stock
March 31, 2017
Small and medium multifamily buildings are the most affordable segment of the housing stock and play a crucial role in providing reasonably priced homes to thousands of families. We must preserve and expand the affordable stock to meet current needs even as we encourage the market to produce more housing which, with time, will become affordable.