Enterprise Rural Communities Senior Director Robin Wolff testified on April 16 before a U.S. Senate subcommittee on the Challenges in Preserving the U.S. Housing Stock.

Even as inflation cools, housing costs for most Americans remain at unsustainable levels. Historically, manufactured homes have been a critical part of the affordable housing landscape, serving low- and moderate-income Americans and in communities where other affordable homes are often unavailable.

Can empty office buildings help provide a solution to the nation's affordable housing crisis? Policy and real estate leaders across the country – from California to New York City – are looking with interest at ways to encourage the conversion of offices to homes just as downtown districts are struggling to recover from the Covid-19 pandemic.

Even when financial and structural factors line up to streamline the conversion of office buildings to multifamily housing, a tangle of local regulatory and market factors can often stand in the way.

Marc Jahr and Geeta Rao discuss New York City’s Housing Development Corporation model financing affordable housing and the opportunities the Bay Area Housing Finance Authority can unlock following the successful passage of a bond measure.

The California Affordable Housing Pipeline reveals the status of affordable homes in the near-construction pipeline and highlights four key actions that can scale development.