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Many rural residents experience mobility challenges, but our partners are helping rural communities respond to these challenges.

It’s time to get creative about how we develop and execute solutions to the growing challenge of housing affordability.

On August 16, HUD released a proposed rule that would revise the 2013 disparate impact rule, which sets the standard for determining when a practice with a discriminatory effect violates the Fair Housing Act.

While economic insecurity is experienced by all types of rural residents, some may be especially vulnerable.

The City of Tacoma developed its Affordable Housing Action Strategy as an urgent response to growing housing needs among residents. Due to its innovative approaches of using data and conducting wide-reaching community engagement, it recently received Washington Governor Jay Inslee’s 2018 Smart Housing Award.

Many rural residents experience difficulties in accessing quality and affordable healthcare – especially in communities that rely heavily on automobile transit.

Many rural residents experience difficulties in attaining a high-quality education. Enterprise’s partners are helping rural communities respond to these challenges.

Enterprise’s partners are helping rural communities respond to housing stability challenges in innovative ways.

Loan Fund made a $500,000 loan to First Nations Oweesta, the only intermediary to Native CDFIs. In addition to sourcing critical loan capital for its members, Oweesta also provides technical assistance to smaller Native CDFIs throughout the country.

This year, the Colorado Health Symposium hosted by the Colorado Health Foundation focused on the inextricable link between housing and health and explored opportunities to address the inequities exacerbated by an unfair and unjust housing system.

This blog offers a set of facts about housing markets that have been conveniently obfuscated or overlooked by a recent entry into the housing crisis denier series. With appropriate data comparisons and finer-grained looks at conditions in housing markets, we show that indeed there are reasons for concern about rental affordability on a national basis, so much so that the federal government needs to take a more direct approach to addressing this issue.

On August 2, President Trump signed into law a two-year bipartisan budget agreement . This legislation raises spending limits by $320 billion over sequestration levels and suspends the federal debt ceiling until July 31, 2021.

This blog looks at recent federal, state and local efforts aimed at addressing land use and regulatory barriers to housing development. It notes that several jurisdictions have been exploring addressing their affordability challenges with a racial equity lens.

At the second DNC debates, housing was top of mind. Read on to find out what the candidates said about the nationwide need for affordable housing.

This series will highlight challenges experienced by rural residents and innovative solutions provided by our partners.

On July 26, U.S. Senators Brian Schatz (D-HI) and Todd Young (R-IN) introduced new legislation that would improve and permanently authorize the Community Development Block Grant – Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) Program.

On July 16, the House Financial Services advanced the Reforming Disaster Recovery Act of of 2019 (H.R. 3702) with unanimous bipartisan support. The bill would strengthen and permanently authorize the Community Development Block Grant - Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) Program at HUD.

Addressing persistent health disparities will require intentional partnerships between the community development field and the health care sector.

The 12-story building will be located at 1080 Washington Avenue in the Morrisania neighborhood of the Bronx on church land that has been owned by UMCS since 1890.

With support from JPMorgan Chase, Enterprise is developing Democratizing Resilience Planning and Disaster Recovery to advance inclusive community-driven decision-making.

In Cleveland, Enterprise has worked hard using the Enterprise Rose Fellowship and the Institute, among other powerful tools, to make sure that well-designed affordable homes have ripple effects throughout the community.

On June 26, Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) reintroduced the Fair Housing Improvement Act of 2019 to protect veterans and low-income families from housing discrimination.