The Permanent Affordability Commitment Together (PACT) program, created by New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) leveraging the federal Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) program, was introduced to help renovate many public housing developments in dire need of restorations without placing the cost of such improvements solely on NYCHA.

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.