Enterprise's Ahmad Abu-Khalaf summarizes the key hurdles BIPOC housing developers face in accessing capital - and solutions for creating a more equitable future for developers.
Part of the Policy Actions for Racial Equity (PARE) blog series, a blog post from Dustin Baird, Native American Housing Program Officer, examines the historical policy effects on housing in Native America.
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.
In the Bay Area, in the Central Valley and throughout the state, Enterprise's Northern California team leads, advises and supports a number of programs to increase housing supply, advance racial equity, and build resilience and upward mobility.
Fourth and latest in Enterprise's PARE blog series, this blog explores how expanding and strengthening HUD’s Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program would help address racial inequities in our rental housing market.
New analyses of recently released 2019 American Community Survey (ACS) data from the U.S. Census Bureau reveals how, even before the pandemic struck, lower-income Black households were the most likely to have housing affordability challenges.
While the world watches and calls for swift and immediate action to address climate change, environmental justice proponents warn that not all policies are created equal, and that some may serve to exacerbate existing inequities, including by race and ethnicity. While many homeowners can invest in efficiency upgrades, electric technologies, and renewable energy generation, renters—particularly low-income and BIPOC renters—rarely have the same options. A careful approach to decarbonization must be considered to avoid exacerbating the nation’s affordable housing crisis.