Round 1 of the 2026 Housing Affordability Breakthrough Challenge is open. Made possible by Wells Fargo and managed by Enterprise, the innovation competition offers five $2 million grants for proven, ready-to-scale solutions.

Celebrating two decades of Enterprise Green Communities, housing leaders gathered online and in Washington, D.C., to reflect on the next chapter for healthy, resilient, and energy-efficient affordable homes amid a moment of unprecedented bipartisan support for housing affordability.

A HVAC innovation creates a prefab “second skin” to retrofit affordable housing, cutting energy use, costs, and disruption—a winner of the Wells Fargo-Enterprise Housing Affordability Breakthrough Challenge.

While the bill rejects many of the deep cuts and policy proposals included in the president’s budget request, it includes reduced funding for key programs, lowering HUD's discretionary funding by 8%.