Fehintola Abioye

Research, Sr. Manager

Fehintola Abioye is a senior manager on the Policy Development & Research team, where she supports and conducts research and data analysis on topics related to Enterprise’s strategic and policy priorities, including housing demand, rental assistance, racial equity, resilience, and homelessness. She was a part of the project management team for the cross-organizational publication of “What's Possible: Investing NOW for a Prosperous Future.” Her other work includes co-authoring "Unlocking Housing Choice: Limitations and Opportunities in the Housing Choice Voucher Program," as well as managing and writing for the Policy Actions for Racial Equity blog series.

Prior to joining Enterprise, Fehintola supported user experience research, data management, and project management at two tech start-ups, dscout and Housing Navigator Massachusetts. Before her roles in tech, Fehintola managed the community development training curriculum at the Massachusetts Association of Community Development Corporations.

Fehintola holds a bachelor’s degree from Tufts University and a master’s degree in social analysis and research from Brown University.

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Washington, DC 20002

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Savannah Affordable Housing Fund

A Dedicated and Equitable Investment for Housing Opportunity

Housing trust funds — flexible, government-established sources of public funding dedicated to supporting affordable housing — offer a powerful tool with support across the political spectrum to enhance affordable housing opportunities for those most in need.
Policy 
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Silver Gardens Albuquerque

Four Key Findings from the 2025 State of the Nation’s Housing Report

The State of the Nation’s Housing 2025, a report from Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies, found that households are still grappling with high purchasing and rental costs, despite a rise in multifamily housing completions in 2024, and growth in the inventory of homes for sale in 98 of the nation’s 100 largest metro areas in early 2025.
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JPMorgan Housing Supply conference

Stabilizing the Affordable Housing Supply

Enterprise and JPMorganChase recently gathered affordable housing policy, finance, and development experts as well as congressional staffers to discuss strategies to stabilize the affordable housing industry and preserve the housing that is currently serving nearly five million households across the country.
Policy 
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Mother and child walking on path

Investing in Community-Led Solutions to Climate Impacts

Several stories of communities developing their own solutions to environmental and climate-related challenges are profiled in “What’s Possible: Investing NOW for Prosperous, Sustainable Neighborhoods,” a collection of essays published by Enterprise, LISC, and The Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
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Unlocking Housing Choice: Limitations and Opportunities in the Housing Choice Voucher Program on an illustration of homes

Unlocking Housing Choice: Limitations and Opportunities in the Housing Choice Voucher Program

March 27, 2024
By:
Fehintola Abioye

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.

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Exploring Policy Actions to Reduce Appraisal Bias

Earlier this year, the Biden-Harris administration announced a set of actions intended to address racial bias in the home appraisal process. The announcement followed a two-year effort led by the Interagency Task Force on Property Appraisal and Valuation Equity (PAVE), an inaugural task force comprised of 13 federal agencies and offices directed to evaluate the causes, extent, and consequences of appraisal bias, as well as establish recommendations to eliminate racial and ethnic bias from the home valuation process. The task force found that the legacies of past racist housing policies, along with industry practices that reinforce negative perceptions of neighborhoods with high concentrations of Black, Indigenous, and other people of color contributed to the under-valuation of homes in majority-BIPOC neighborhoods and the loss of billions of dollars in wealth for their owners.
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