Enterprise has relaunched the Enterprise Community Leadership Council, a group of dedicated housing pathbreakers from across the nation to advise the organization.

In his first six weeks on the job, Shaun Donovan has visited 11 cities, met with dozens of partners and investors, and toured affordable housing properties across the country. The recent travels drove home the breadth and depth of Enterprise's work, mission, and partnerships. But as the organization's new CEO and president, Donovan believes Enterprise must expand its network to tackle the full scope of the country's affordable housing crisis.

In the Southeast, Enterprise launched its third Preservation Academy, a series of no-cost trainings and peer learning sessions designed to build the capacity of developers and housing providers to acquire, rehabilitate, and preserve affordable, unsubsidized SMMF rental properties.

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.