The city of Detroit has announced a federally-funded Preservation Partnership with Enterprise and other local affordable housing non-profits. The partnership will seek to identify apartment buildings that have low rents and help them be redeveloped in a way that preserves the affordability and prevents displacement. Evelyn Zwiebach, Enterprise Detroit Director for State and Local Policy, urges all Presidential candidates to commit to robust federal funding for critical affordable housing programs.

New legislation introduced by Senators Sanders (I-VT), Merkley (D-OR) and Warren (D-MA), and Representative Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY-14) aims to decarbonize public housing, fund resiliency grants.

Enterprise joins housing, civil rights, social justice, faith-based, and immigration organizations in strongly opposing a HUD rule that would prohibit “mixed-status families”—households whose members have different citizenship and immigration statuses—from living in public and other subsidized housing.

As Atlanta's affordability challenges grow, robust public-private action is needed for the city to retain its vibrancy and combat the displacement of its lower-income residents.

Yesterday the Trump Administration released a draft bill that would change the way rents for HUD-assisted households are calculated. These changes would increase rents, eliminate income deductions for health and child care expenses, and permit Public Housing Agencies (PHAs) and housing providers to implement work requirements and alternative rent structures on tenants.