From advocating for the landmark Low-Income Housing Tax Credit to establishing the only comprehensive green building framework designed for affordable housing, we have a lot of innovation to celebrate.

Image	1982 Our Founding Jim and Patty Rouse launch Enterprise with 8 employees.
Image	1983 Streamlining Preservation Created Rehabilitation Work Group to identify materials and techniques to streamline costs of acquiring and rehabilitating unfit housing.
Image	1984 New Sources of Capital Launched Enterprise Community Investment, now part of our Capital division, to find new sources of capital to expand housing production. To date we’ve invested $54 billion.
Image	1986 Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Introduced Were instrumental in advocating for this landmark credit. Since its introduction, we’ve created / preserved 184,000 homes using the Housing Credit.
Image	1990 Investing in Communities Launched Enterprise Community Loan Fund which has invested $2.3 billion to build homes, health care facilities and schools for those most in need.
Image	1992 Leading on Lead Safety Developed the Lead Safe Housing initiative (now National Center for Healthy Housing) which has helped train more than 50,000 housing professionals.
Image	1994 More Opportunity for Underserved Communities Advocated for the establishment of the Community Development Financial Institution Fund to promote economic revitalization and community development through investment in CDFIs.
Image	1996 Driving Community Employment Launched Community Employment Alliance in 9 cities to develop welfare-to-work initiatives.
Image	1997 Tribal Nations & Rural Communities Initiative to create healthy, green affordable homes and increase economic opportunities. Nearly 40,000 rural homes have been developed nationwide.
Image	1999 Protecting the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) Led policy efforts to protect the CRA, which requires banks to meet credit needs where they operate. Since its passage, the CRA has invested $6 trillion.
Image	2002 Sparking Development with NMTC Led on New Markets Tax Credit implementation to support struggling communities, generating more than $1 billion in allocations to date.
Image	2004 Creating Green Community Criteria Launched the nation’s first comprehensive green building framework for affordable housing, which has already cut nearly 28,000 tons of CO2 emissions.
Image	2006 Pioneering Environmental Relief Pledged $200 million to help create more than 10,000 affordable homes in the region after the Gulf Coast hurricanes.
Image	2006 Innovative Use of Underutilized Land Created a Faith-Based Development Initiative which has invested $154 million to help houses of worship develop unused land.
Image	2007 Anti-Racist Community Development Partnered with HOPE SF, the nation’s first explicitly anti-racist community development initiative, to build communities without major displacement.
Image	2010 Transit-Oriented Development Invested $50 million in 22 properties and more than 2,000 homes with access to public transit throughout the Denver region.
Image	2013 Rebuilding after Hurricane Sandy Secured $6.3 million to help housing organizations recover and launch a tool to assess 56 vulnerable buildings.
Image	2015 Completed 2,000 Housing Credit Deals Supported formerly homeless and low-income seniors at Cheryl Chow Court in Seattle as a part of our 2,000 Housing Credit deal.
Image	2017 Preserving the Housing Credit Led advocacy to retain Housing Credit and Housing Bonds program, one of only two tax credits sustained the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
Image	2017 Expanding Long-term Housing Affordability Enhanced our end-to-end solution by assuming management of 4,000 affordable homes in the Mid-Atlantic region.
Image	2018 Improving Our Ability to Serve Residents Silver Spring, Maryland-based Community Development Preservation Corporation (CPDC) combines talents and resources with Enterprise to better serve thousands of residents.
Image	2018 Expanding the Housing Credit Secured a temporary 12.5% increase in Housing Credit authority, the first in over a decade in the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2018.
Image	2019 Supporting Healthy Communities Breakthrough $15 million partnership with Kaiser Permanent was designed to administer health action plans while preserving affordable homes.
Image	2020 Dismantling Racism in Housing Launched Equitable Path Forward (EPF), a 5-year, $3.5 billion nationwide initiative designed to help dismantle the legacy of racism in housing.
Image	2020 Strengthening Affordable Housing Tools Worked with Congress to pass critical Housing Credit provision (minimum 4% rate) and extend NMTC at $5 billion per year for 5 years.
Image	2021 Country’s First Racial Impact Assessment on Qualified Action Plan Worked with Chicago Department of Housing to ensure LIHTC is equitably allocated to communities of color and working-class families across the city.
Image	2021 Building Resiliency in Affordable Housing Launched Keep Safe in Florida to help affordable housing owners address threats from climate change and natural disasters.
Image	2021 Supporting Families in the Face of Covid-19 Advocated for critical federal relief, including a historic investment in CDFIs, and launched the Emergency Action for Resident and Partner Stability program.