Federal Policy

Enterprise is advancing a strategy to address homelessness by scaling proven solutions in partnership with the communities, advocates, and people with lived experience doing this work daily.

Policy 

Advocacy

Federal Policy

Homelessness

State/Local Policy

Report

Community Development Block Grants Disaster Recovery, Rental Requirements, and Rental Market Impacts

November 21, 2024

By:

Andrew Jakabovics

Published by HUD Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development and Research, Federalism and Flexibility: Fifty Years of Community Development Block Grants

Community Development Block Grant

Policy Development and Research

Rental Support

Sustainability

Training

Rural Rental Housing Preservation Convening

June 10, 2026 (Originally Published: October 29, 2024)

During a two-day academy on August 6-7, 2024 at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, our Rural Communities team brought together elected officials, financial experts, housing providers, and state, and federal agencies to explore solutions.

Partner Sustainability  

Preservation and Production

Preservation

Infographic

Housing and Community Development Appropriations Budget Chart

May 21, 2026 (Originally Published: August 9, 2024)

By:

Xavier Arriaga

Administration and Congress Spending Proposals for Fiscal Year 2026.

Partner Sustainability and Growth

Section 4

Preservation and Production

Preservation

Equitable Path Forward

Fair Housing

Resilience

Upward Mobility 

Community Development Financial Institution

Low-Income Housing Tax Credit

Policy 

Community Development

Report

Evaluating Equity Efforts and Outcomes of CDBG-DR Funded Flood Resilience Efforts in Four Communities

February 13, 2024

Published by HUD Office of Policy Development and Research,

Resilience

Policy 

Climate Resilience

Community Development Block Grant

Disaster Recovery

Federal Policy

Policy Development and Research

Report

Barriers & Opportunities to Creating Low-Density Multifamily Housing

January 26, 2024

By:

Ahmad Abu-Khalaf

Explore the potential positive outcomes of allowing low-density multifamily (LDMF) development in areas previously reserved for single-family development, as well as prominent regulatory and financing challenges to creating LDMF housing.

Policy Development and Research

State/Local Policy

Zoning Reform

Report

Enterprise's Public Policy Priorities for 2023

March 8, 2023

By:

Liz Osborn

Enterprise's key federal priorities for the 118th Congress

Documents

Enterprise Comments on Proposed Rules to Modernize the Community Reinvestment Act

August 5, 2022

By:

Andrew Jakabovics

This August, we at Enterprise Community Partners presented our comments on the proposed rulemaking changes to the Community Reinvestment Act, the 1977 law that was designed to undo the racist underinvestment in low-income and communities of color.

Racial Equity

Policy 

Federal Policy

Policy Development and Research

Race and Racism

Report

Enterprise's Public Policy Priorities for 2022

February 24, 2022

As the country heads toward a pivotal midterm election, we outline the key policy priorities Congress and the White House must enact to create more affordable housing in America.

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