This poem was authored and shared by Leslé Honoré for Enterprise's Centering Healing, Serving Community event, part of the Health Begins with Home webinar series sponsored by Citi.

The Enterprise Faith-Based Development Initiative^SM (Enterprise FBDI^SM) engages and assists the faith community in affordable housing and community development through training, capital, and expertise, connecting them with the resources needed to realize their development goals.

Through extensive literature review and qualitative data, this brief draws from the community development sector’s experience to identify best practices, interventions and key common-sense reforms to make land contracts a safer and more effective homeownership tool.

This brief offers insight into recommended practices for the community engagement step of the Health Action Plan and provides adaptable community engagement strategies to provide a safe way of collecting community feedback during the Covid-19 pandemic.

At Enterprise, our mission has compelled us to carry on during these extraordinary times, and we know that people and communities need our support now more than ever.

Enterprise Green Communities Criteria is the nation’s only national green building program designed explicitly for green affordable housing construction.

The Colorado Rural Rental Housing Preservation Academy is series of trainings and conversations designed to help rural housing providers acquire and/or preserve USDA Rural Development, HUD, LIHTC, and other affordable rental housing in rural Colorado.

Cities are not homogeneous by race and ethnicity, however, with some neighborhoods still majority non-Hispanic white. Nor are changes within these neighborhoods consistent; for example, those that have experienced gentrification – or the in-migration of higher-income households into traditionally low-income communities – likely have different patterns of racial change than non-gentrified neighborhoods, given inequalities in income distributions across households by race and ethnicity.

With the support of Enterprise, the NYU Wagner Capstone Team led a research project to identify affordable housing models and services that best meet the needs of justice-involved people and provide recommendations for housing developers seeking to develop housing models for this population.

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.