Zoning Reform

Brief

Making It Happen: Leveraging Federally Owned Property to Create Affordable Homes

April 28, 2026

By:

This issue brief draws on learned lessons from on-the-ground examples, discussing considerations, strategies, and attainable outcomes for repurposing underutilized federally owned property to create affordable multifamily homes.

Preservation and Production

Construction and Development 

Policy 

Affordable Housing

Land Use

National

Policy Development and Research

Zoning Reform

Training

2025 FBDI Summit: Getting it Done

December 19, 2025

By:

David Bowers

Watch a recording of the summit to hear about policies supporting faith-based development and real-world lessons from development projects.

Enterprise Faith-Based Development Initiative^SM

Brief

Making It Happen: Scaling Low-density Multifamily Housing

April 28, 2026 (Originally Published: May 20, 2025)

By:

Ahmad Abu-Khalaf

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.

Preservation and Production

Policy 

Land Use

Neighborhood Investment

Zoning Reform

Brief

Making it Happen: Scaling Off-site Construction

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

By:

Ahmad Abu-Khalaf

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

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