No family should have to choose between buying groceries or making rent to stay in their home. Yet America’s affordable housing shortage runs nearly 7 million homes deep – for every 100 families who need them most, only 37 affordable homes are available.

To families struggling, the shortage of affordable rental homes isn’t a headline. It’s an everyday reality. Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) continue to bear the brunt of the crisis due to systemic racism.

The production – the new construction – of affordable homes is essential. Yet we can’t only build our way out of the housing crisis. That’s where preservation comes in. It means making sure the affordable homes we do have remain affordable.

The kids came running in and we all laughed and cried. I told them it was going to be all right. We were going to move in.
Johnna Blocker, resident of Rolland Curtis Gardens in Los Angeles, an Enterprise-financed property
Preservation & Prevention
Enterprise is fighting back to create and preserve affordable places to live.

Preservation & Eviction Prevention

With our comprehensive approach and local programs and partnerships, we support both residents and landlords with protections to prevent evictions and keep rental homes affordable.

Development, Property Management & Resident Services

As a fully integrated developer and owner, we design, develop and manage affordable homes and communities with residents’ needs at the center.

Faith-Based Development

We create partnerships among houses of worship, developers and public and private funders to create affordable homes and community facilities.

Housing Affordability Breakthrough Challenge

Led by Enterprise and made possible by the generous support of Wells Fargo, the challenge is elevating and transforming housing affordability innovations into real solutions.

Rural & Native American Initiative

We provide funding, training and technical assistance to partners on the ground to produce and preserve affordable homes on tribal lands and in rural communities.

Design Initiative

We provide tools, programs, and research to support developers in mastering their design process and focus their developments on outcomes that are important to residents.

Building Conversion

Together with government, nonprofit and philanthropic partners, we support the conversion of hotels, motels, apartments and office buildings into affordable homes and services for people who have been homeless.

Products for Investors

We’re here for impact – we’ve invested $44 billion to help preserve and produce 781,000 affordable homes.

Financing for Developers

We offer products for every stage of development, so you and your team can build and preserve more good homes and strong communities.

Jacqueline Waggoner
If we want to stem the pipeline of people moving onto our streets, we have to come up with solutions that keep people in place. That’s a moral issue, it’s a humanitarian issue, and it doesn’t rest with individual owners, it rests with all of us.
Jacqueline Waggoner, President, Solutions Division
Resources

Preserving Affordability, Preventing Displacement

This report draws on lessons learned from recent efforts in three Bay Area jurisdictions to distill best practices for designing and implementing local acquisit...

Cover image

Next Generation SRO Housing in Chicago

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 w...

Next Generation SRO housing cover image

Rural Rental Housing Preservation Academies

These no-cost training and peer-learning sessions help rural housing providers and nonprofits acquire and preserve USDA Rural Development, HUD 811 and 202, Low-...

Rural Rental Housing Academy cover image
Denver Regional TOD Fund

Denver Regional TOD Fund Term Sheet

The Fund provides financing for the acquisition of property alongside transit corridors for the preservation or development of affordable homes and community fa...

Exterior of Denver building

News, Events & Blogs

All news & events
All blog posts
Blog
Learning to Preserve Affordable Homes And Prevent Displacement
Building Resilient Futures | Southeast
Blog
Investing in America’s Housing as Infrastructure
Low-Income Housing Tax Credit | Policy 
Blog
Eviction Prevention as a Preservation Strategy
Covid Response | Preservation & Eviction Prevention
Four people in a zoom call

Meet Our Team