Policy Development and Research

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.

Published by HUD Office of Policy Development and Research,

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.

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.

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.

“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.

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.

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.