Policy Development and Research

Brief

Making it Happen: Scaling Off-site Construction

April 28, 2026 (Originally Published: August 7, 2024)

By:

This issue brief, the second in a series, focuses on opportunities to scale affordable housing innovations. Enterprise highlights regulatory reforms that would make it easier to leverage off-site construction and opportunities to tailor financing products to its unique needs.

Preservation and Production

Policy 

Policy Development and Research

Zoning Reform

Report

Unlocking Housing Choice: Limitations and Opportunities in the Housing Choice Voucher Program

March 27, 2024

By:

Fehintola Abioye

This paper provides an overview of the history, operation, and current debates around the Housing Choice Voucher program, the federal government's largest form of rental assistance.

Partner Sustainability  

Policy Development and Research

Rental Assistance

Brief

People get information at the Reception Center for Puerto Rican refugees set up at the Orlando International Airport in Orlando, Florida on November 30, 2017.

Policy Brief: Preparing Receiving Communities for Climate Migrations

February 26, 2024

In Preparing Receiving Communities for Climate Migrations, Enterprise outlines steps policymakers at the federal, state and local level can take to help receiving communities address the impacts of climate migrations.

Resilience

Policy 

Climate Resilience

Policy Development and Research

State/Local Policy

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

Documents

Repurposing Underutilized Strip Malls to Create Multifamily Housing

November 2, 2023

By:

Ahmad Abu-Khalaf

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.

Preservation and Production

Policy 

Community Development

Land Use

National

Policy Development and Research

Brief

Key Strategies and Resources for Equitable Resilience

November 1, 2023

Originally published by HUD Exchange, the “Key Strategies and Resources for Equitable Resilience” collection offers an introductory packet of information for communities in the immediate aftermath of a disaster.

Resilience

Policy 

Climate Resilience

Community Development Block Grant

Disaster Recovery

Policy Development and Research

Brief

Making It Happen: Scaling Accessory Dwelling Units

April 28, 2026 (Originally Published: October 5, 2023)

By:

Ahmad Abu-Khalaf

“Making it Happen” is a series of issue briefs that explore recent successes in scaling affordable housing innovations by addressing regulatory and financing barriers to these innovations. The first in the series, this issue brief lays out recent progress in bringing Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) development to scale.

Preservation and Production

Policy 

Housing Supply

National

Policy Development and Research

Report

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Home for Good: Strategies to Prevent Eviction and Promote Housing Stability

September 12, 2022

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The harms exacted by the eviction process expand well beyond America’s families. Eviction has exceedingly destabilized the affordable housing industry at large, exacting a financial toll on the very developers and owners needed to preserve and expand the limited supply of subsidized, affordable housing.

Preservation and Production

Eviction Prevention

Racial Equity

Upward Mobility 

Housing Stability

Policy Development and Research

Documents

Couple in front of their wooden front door

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

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