Land Use

This issue brief reviews opportunities to scale affordable housing innovations, including regulatory reforms designed to facilitate the development of some forms of LDMF housing and recent lending products tailored to financing LDMF development.

Testimony from Enterprise New York for the New York City Charter Revision Commision in April 2025.

This white paper examines the opportunities and challenges of converting strip malls to affordable housing and highlights two successful examples from New York and California.

Through extensive literature review and qualitative data, this brief draws from the community development sector’s experience to identify best practices, interventions and key common-sense reforms to make land contracts a safer and more effective homeownership tool.