Free workshops focused on building resilient homes and communities in the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) help tenants, owners, governments and communities prepare for the realities of a changing climate

In February 2020, Enterprise’s Northern California team welcomed Andrea Papanastassiou as director with the conventional equity team.

For more than 20 years, Enterprise’s Southern California market has been a leader in bringing innovative and sustaining solutions to community challenges. With the support and contributions of our valued donors and partners in 2019, we connected Angelenos to affordable homes with supportive services, strengthened historically neglected and rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods, and educated communities and conducted conversations on the history and legacy of redlining.

Island communities, from the Pacific to the Caribbean, are facing the climate crisis head on and uniting to share practices, resources, and identify ways to strengthen national policies and funding to support their efforts. 

The Los Angeles Business Council (LABC), together with affordable housing nonprofit Enterprise Community Partners (Enterprise), is launching a coalition in support of a series of proposals issued by the Governor’s Council of Regional Homeless Advisors. Led by Richard Ziman, Chairman of Rexford Industrial and LABC Founder, and Jacqueline Waggoner, Vice President & Southern California Market Leader for Enterprise, the group is focused on establishing public-private partnerships to eliminate homelessness statewide.

Enhancing and Implementing Homeownership in Native Communities is a new curriculum with 12 interactive modules to support housing practitioners in creating and strengthening homeownership programs.

Northern California market welcomed Brandon Jones as program director of the Cultural Resilience Program. His role is to examine strategies and best practices for protecting cultural identity within community development, with a focus on the HOPE SF redevelopment initiative and supporting Enterprise’s national Culture and Creativity team. 

Program Participants Announced for the New York State Anti-Displacement Learning Network in Partnership with Attorney General