The State of the Nation’s Housing 2025, a report from Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies, found that households are still grappling with high purchasing and rental costs, despite a rise in multifamily housing completions in 2024, and growth in the inventory of homes for sale in 98 of the nation’s 100 largest metro areas in early 2025.

CLTs can help empower and stabilize communities by including residents in the decision-making process, and can play an important role in preserving affordable housing and promoting wealth-building in low-income communities.

In the Deep South, Hope Enterprise Corporation is helping turn renters of single-family LIHTC properties into homeowners. Their Y16 innovation is a winner of the Housing Affordability Breakthrough Challenge led by Enterprise with support from the Wells Fargo Foundation. Enterprise Senior Director of Rural Communities Robin Wolff speaks with HOPE's Jena Reed about how the idea for Y16 emerged, where it has the potential to scale, and why homeownership is core to HOPE's mission.

The affordable housing landscape is increasingly defined by complexity. At the 2025 Central Midwest Partner Retreat, developers, funders, and asset managers came together to share what’s working, what’s changing, and how to maintain operations for the long-term.

South Central Industries, a nonprofit organization based in Shawnee, Oklahoma, is using a Section 4 grant awarded by Enterprise to increase capacity to carry out its mission to build safe, affordable housing for adults with developmental and intellectual disabilities.