Brianna McClure, program officer at Enterprise, speaks with Ben Metsch, chief strategy officer at the Fortune Society about the H2J National Toolkit and actionable pathways to help affordable housing providers identify opportunities to improve equity for justice-involved individuals.

Nearly 80% of formerly incarcerated people and their families report being denied housing due to a criminal conviction. That’s according to a 2015 study led by the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Forward Together, and Research Action Design, which also found that formerly incarcerated people are 10 to 13 times more likely to experience homelessness than those who have not been incarcerated.  

This article is part of a blog post series,  Policy Actions for Racial Equity (PARE), https://www.enterprisecommunity.org/blog/pare-enterprises-new-series-ho… which explores how housing policies contribute to racial disparities in our country.