Zoning reform can make a significant difference in expanding the supply of accessible and affordable housing opportunities available for households of color and other socially and economically disadvantaged people across the country.

The NMTC is a “place-based” tax credit that drives capital to distressed and low-income Census tracts typically overlooked by traditional investment. Advocates say that making the credit a permanent part of the tax code is the most significant way to realize the full potential of the NMTC program.

Earlier this year, the Biden-Harris administration announced a set of actions intended to address racial bias in the home appraisal process. The announcement followed a two-year effort led by the Interagency Task Force on Property Appraisal and Valuation Equity (PAVE), an inaugural task force comprised of 13 federal agencies and offices directed to evaluate the causes, extent, and consequences of appraisal bias, as well as establish recommendations to eliminate racial and ethnic bias from the home valuation process. The task force found that the legacies of past racist housing policies, along with industry practices that reinforce negative perceptions of neighborhoods with high concentrations of Black, Indigenous, and other people of color contributed to the under-valuation of homes in majority-BIPOC neighborhoods and the loss of billions of dollars in wealth for their owners.

Blog series which explores the many ways housing policies contribute to racial disparities in our country.

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.

Enterprise has released a new tool that provides a timeline of policy events that shaped housing outcomes for Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color (BIPOC) communities – from the first colonial settlements through present day.