With the support of Enterprise, the NYU Wagner Capstone Team led a research project to identify affordable housing models and services that best meet the needs of justice-involved people and provide recommendations for housing developers seeking to develop housing models for this population.
This paper provides an overview of the history, operation, and current debates around the Housing Choice Voucher program, the federal government's largest form of rental assistance.
This resource provides a template for the affordable housing developer to use when forming a partnership with a public health professional to complete a Health Action Plan.
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 analysis uses a national tract-level database of Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics, American Community Survey and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development data to assess commute patterns for people who live in high-poverty neighborhoods.
Lessons learned from recent efforts in three Bay Area jurisdictions to distill best practices for designing and implementing local acquisition-rehab preservation programs. It includes case studies that illustrate the impacts acquisition-rehab efforts have had on communities, profiles of recent financing initiatives aimed at supporting this work, and an analysis of development costs for a sample of properties recently acquired by nonprofit stewards.
An overview of key challenges, best practices and case studies in SRO preservation as it relates to supportive services and operations, policy and finance, as well as design and construction.
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.