It took Lou Wratchford many years to think of herself as a leader. “I’ve always thought of myself as an Upper Mattaponi person, and always an advocate for my Tribe,” said Assistant Chief Lou Wratchford of the Upper Mattaponi Tribe in King William, Virginia, who was elected by her tribe in October 2023. Lou is now the third woman executive leader in the Upper Mattaponi’s modern history.

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.

Connecting the dots from slavery to Jim Crow, to voter disenfranchisement and the reasons present-day persistent poverty counties and areas of deep disadvantage in rural America overlap so heavily with communities of color.

Invest Native begins a new round of funding, with the letter of interest (LOI) phase opening on Monday, April 1, 2024.

New Orleans Restoration Properties celebrated the grand opening of Grove Place, an affordable 32-home community, and announced Phase 2 development in the Hollygrove neighborhood of New Orleans.

In its 50 years of existence, the Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program has been immensely valuable for low-income households across the United States. Last year, the HCV program subsidized the cost of rental housing for over 2.4 million households. To take a closer look at the federal government’s largest form of rental assistance, Enterprise Community Partners published a new paper, Unlocking Housing Choice: Limitations and Opportunities in the Housing Choice Voucher Program.