The Tribal Nations team at Enterprise works diligently to create systemic opportunities and frameworks to guide the delivery and outcomes of our work to ensure homes are a place of pride, power and belonging and a pathway to upward mobility in the Tribal and Native communities we serve.
“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.
This report describes the program learning as the housing mobility pilot program evolved, documents program challenges and achievements and highlights key findings in participant outcomes over the first year of moves.
The harms exacted by the eviction process expand well beyond America’s families. Eviction has exceedingly destabilized the affordable housing industry at large, exacting a financial toll on the very developers and owners needed to preserve and expand the limited supply of subsidized, affordable housing.
Direct rental assistance (DRA), or cash-based rental assistance is a model that's pushing rental systems in a new direction, says the University of Pennsylvania's Vincent Reina. We spoke to Reina about the history of DRA and how to ensure it's part of a larger constellation of support for families in need.
An easy-to-use resource cataloguing a wide range of strategies to prevent eviction and promote housing stability that offers policymakers, practitioners and advocates a broad overview of available tools and guidance on when to use them.