Enterprise is collaborating with FIHPP technical assistance (TA) partners –The California Community Land Trust Network, Community Vision, and Genesis LA - to provide a webinar series and individual TA as prospective borrowers gear up for the release of FIHPP funds. Sessions will be accompanied by guidance and template documents that will help mission-driven developers prepare for participation in the program, as well as long-term success as stewards of affordable housing.

Enterprise developed the Faith-Based Development Guide to provide support to houses of worship interested in taking the next step in the development process – from those just starting their journey to those already well underway in their work.

“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.

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.

Organizations acquired the language, evaluation tools and evidence needed to articulate the connection between their work and individual health outcomes and were equipped to convey their findings in a way that would resonate with current and future health care partners.

This white paper examines the challenges and opportunities to preserving permanent supportive housing (PSH) in Los Angeles County as well as provide public policy recommendations to ensure that this housing serves as an integral step in the region’s long-term goal of ending homelessness.