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.

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.

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.

This guide is an expansion to the Community Engagement chapter published in 'Keep Safe, A Guide for Resilient Housing Design in Island Communities'.

Through effective partnerships and informed decision-making processes, faith-based organizations (FBOs) who own underutilized or vacant property are able to repurpose their property to create affordable homes and public benefit. This resource assists FBOs and community stakeholders interested in advancing this strategy with understanding what it takes to successfully and effectively implement this solution and the different implementation approaches that can be pursued.

The Gentrification Comparison Tool maps neighborhoods in 93 U.S. cities over four decades by their gentrification status under three different definitions.