A spotlight on what Rural and Native American grantees have accomplished with Section 4 Grants that were used for capacity building, technical assistance, design, finance, community development and affordable housing projects.
Building to Heal: A Framework for Holistic Community Development guides practitioners through the purpose and importance of bringing a healing-centered approach to community development and outlines the principles and strategies to achieve this goal.
One year in, winners of the Enterprise-led Housing Affordability Breakthrough Challenge made possible by Wells Fargo are reaching impressive milestones.
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Despite extensive financial and regulatory constraints on affordable housing development, some projects are still able to yield extraordinary results, but how? Enterprise has interrogated this question over the past ten years of the Affordable Housing Design Leadership Institute (AHDLI), observing and listening to the 129 developers and 94 designers convened to workshop diverse national projects.
Enterprise’s Design Team explored what allows development teams to maintain a project focus on resident and community outcomes, despite financial or regulatory constraints. One common practice stood out: projects that had set clear, specific, written goals at their beginnings, informed by local needs and assets, were better poised to remain committed to their desired resident and community impacts through value-engineering and into construction.