Preservation

Enterprise Community Partners is bringing its Rural Housing Preservation Academy in the Pacific Northwest (Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Alaska). The Academy is a series of no-cost training and peer learning sessions designed to help rural housing providers acquire and/or preserve USDA Rural Development (RD), HUD and LIHTC financed housing in their respective communities.

These no-cost training and peer-learning sessions help rural housing providers and nonprofits acquire and preserve USDA Rural Development, HUD 811 and 202, Low-Income Housing Tax Credit and other subsidized and affordable housing.

The Preservation Fund I Report offers a retrospective view of Enterprise’s first-ever preservation equity fund, launched in 2013 and fully realized in 2024, and its impact.

Enterprise is collaborating with FIHPP technical assistance (TA) partners –The California Community Land Trust Network, Community Vision, and Genesis LA - to provide a webinar series and individual TA as prospective borrowers gear up for the release of FIHPP funds. Sessions will be accompanied by guidance and template documents that will help mission-driven developers prepare for participation in the program, as well as long-term success as stewards of affordable housing.

“Use what you have” sounds simple. But in the affordable housing realm, preservation is an innovative strategy – the most cost-effective, sustainable way to protect and expand access to rental homes and preserve affordability where it exists.

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.

Using aggregated data from SROs in Northern and Southern California, the report looks at portfolio risk factors, property conditions, and trends shaping the state's SRO landscape.

This research aims to assess and characterize the aging permanent supportive housing stock in Los Angeles, ensuring that policymakers and housing officials have a clear picture of risk profiles.

This white paper examines the challenges and opportunities to preserving permanent supportive housing (PSH) in Los Angeles County as well as provide public policy recommendations to ensure that this housing serves as an integral step in the region’s long-term goal of ending homelessness.

Policy Recommendations of the New York City Eviction Prevention Roundtable