The Colorado Rural Rental Housing Preservation Academy is series of trainings and conversations designed to help rural housing providers acquire and/or preserve USDA Rural Development, HUD, LIHTC, and other affordable rental housing in rural Colorado.

Cities are not homogeneous by race and ethnicity, however, with some neighborhoods still majority non-Hispanic white. Nor are changes within these neighborhoods consistent; for example, those that have experienced gentrification – or the in-migration of higher-income households into traditionally low-income communities – likely have different patterns of racial change than non-gentrified neighborhoods, given inequalities in income distributions across households by race and ethnicity.

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.

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.

Through effective partnerships and informed decision-making processes, faith-based organizations (FBOs) who own underutilized or vacant property are able to repurpose their property to create affordable homes and public benefit. This resource assists FBOs and community stakeholders interested in advancing this strategy with understanding what it takes to successfully and effectively implement this solution and the different implementation approaches that can be pursued.

Enterprise Green Communities Criteria is the nation’s only national green building program designed explicitly for green affordable housing construction.

Keep Safe, seeks to make reconstructed homes able to sustain impacts from natural hazards like hurricanes, earthquakes and flooding.

Organizations acquired the language, evaluation tools and evidence needed to articulate the connection between their work and individual health outcomes and were equipped to convey their findings in a way that would resonate with current and future health care partners.

An illustrated step-by-step guide for do-it-yourselfers and contractors seeking to prevent mold-related health problems and save storm-damaged homes.

This white paper explores where the use of off-site construction techniques can boost the creation of subsidized housing and create cost savings for market-rate developers, which can help expand the supply of homes and ultimately enable homeowners and tenants to benefit from these benefits by lowering their housing costs, and what kinds of changes to the regulatory and financing systems could scale the use of off-site construction.