With affordable housing on the national radar like never before, we must seize this moment to find solutions to a crisis that is damaging and dividing communities across the country. This was the message from Shaun Donovan, Enterprise’s new chief executive officer and president, speaking at the National Building Museum’s Future Cities: Housing Affordability Summit.

In opening remarks to kick off the pitch competition for the Housing Affordability Breakthrough Challenge, Enterprise's David Bowers called on finalists – and everyone working in the housing and community development sector – to "celebrate the wins, kick the dirt on the losses, then buckle up and keep at it."

Bernadette Butler is the director of the Homecoming Project, which pairs people leaving prison with homeowners who have a room to spare. We spoke with Butler recently about her first six months on the job and her vision for the project's future growth.

Civil rights leader Shirley Sherrod and her late husband Charles devoted their lives to advancing voting rights, solidarity, and wealth building through land ownership. But for a new generation of housing leaders like Devin Culbertson of Grounded Solutions Network, a Housing Affordability Breakthrough Challenge winner, their story is much more than a history lesson. It’s an urgent call to action.

Gulf Coast Housing Partnership – a 2020 winner of the Housing Affordability Breakthrough Challenge led by Enterprise and Wells Fargo – celebrates the opening of its first Health + Housing pilot development, H3C.

In the Deep South, Hope Enterprise Corporation is helping turn renters of single-family LIHTC properties into homeowners. Their Y16 innovation is a winner of the Housing Affordability Breakthrough Challenge led by Enterprise with support from the Wells Fargo Foundation. Enterprise Senior Director of Rural Communities Robin Wolff speaks with HOPE's Jena Reed about how the idea for Y16 emerged, where it has the potential to scale, and why homeownership is core to HOPE's mission.