The California State Legislature is back from recess and within the next several weeks, important decisions to address the housing and homelessness crisis will be made.
President Biden signed into law the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (H.R. 1319), a $1.9 trillion Covid-19 stimulus package designed to provide relief to American households, states and local governments, and businesses struggling with the health and economic toll of the pandemic.
School desegregation efforts haven’t been durable because we have failed to tackle the root cause – residential segregation, the undone work of the civil rights movement. A new report from the Urban Institute funded by Enterprise draws a through-line between discriminatory housing practices and school inequities, and identifies strategies to address school segregation.
Sixteen organizations have progressed to the third and final round of the 2023 Housing Affordability Breakthrough Challenge led by Enterprise with generous support from the Wells Fargo Foundation. Finalists are vying for grants up to $3 million to propel, complete, and scale their implementation-ready housing innovations.