Marc Jahr and Geeta Rao discuss New York City’s Housing Development Corporation model financing affordable housing and the opportunities the Bay Area Housing Finance Authority can unlock following the successful passage of a bond measure.

Connecting the dots from slavery to Jim Crow, to voter disenfranchisement and the reasons present-day persistent poverty counties and areas of deep disadvantage in rural America overlap so heavily with communities of color.

In its 50 years of existence, the Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program has been immensely valuable for low-income households across the United States. Last year, the HCV program subsidized the cost of rental housing for over 2.4 million households. To take a closer look at the federal government’s largest form of rental assistance, Enterprise Community Partners published a new paper, Unlocking Housing Choice: Limitations and Opportunities in the Housing Choice Voucher Program.

The California Affordable Housing Pipeline reveals the status of affordable homes in the near-construction pipeline and highlights four key actions that can scale development.