No family should have to choose between buying groceries or making rent. Yet America’s affordable housing shortage runs nearly 7 million homes deep — for every 100 families who need them most, only 37 affordable homes are available.

To families struggling, the shortage of affordable rental homes isn’t a headline. It’s an everyday reality. Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) continue to bear the brunt of the crisis due to systemic racism.

The production (new construction) of affordable homes is essential. Yet we can’t only build our way out of the housing crisis. That’s where preservation comes in. It means making sure the affordable homes we do have remain affordable.

The kids came running in and we all laughed and cried. I told them it was going to be all right. We were going to move in.
Johnna Blocker, resident of Rolland Curtis Gardens in Los Angeles, an Enterprise-financed property
Preservation and Production
Enterprise is fighting to create and preserve affordable places to live.

Preservation and Eviction Prevention

With our comprehensive approach and local programs and partnerships, we support both residents and landlords with protections to prevent evictions and keep rental homes affordable.

Development, Property Management, and Resident Services

As a fully integrated developer and owner, we design, develop, and manage affordable homes and communities with residents’ needs at the center.

Faith-Based Development

We create partnerships among houses of worship, developers, and public and private funders to create affordable homes and community facilities.

Housing Affordability Breakthrough Challenge

Led by Enterprise and made possible by the generous support of Wells Fargo, the challenge is elevating and transforming housing affordability innovations into real solutions.

Tribal Nations and Rural Communities

We provide funding, training, and technical assistance to partners on the ground to produce and preserve affordable homes on tribal lands and in rural communities.

Design Initiative

We provide tools, programs, and research to support developers in mastering their design process and focusing their developments on outcomes that are important to residents.

Building Conversion

Together with government, nonprofit, and philanthropic partners, we support the conversion of hotels, motels, apartments, and office buildings into affordable homes and services for people who have been homeless.

Products for Investors

We’re here for impact — we’ve invested $72 billion to help preserve and produce 1 million affordable homes.

Financing for Developers

We offer products for every stage of development, so you and your team can build and preserve more good homes and strong communities.

Rural Rental Preservation Academy

A series of no-cost trainings and peer-learning sessions designed to help rural housing providers and nonprofits acquire and preserve subsidized and affordable multifamily housing.

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If we want to stem the pipeline of people moving onto our streets, we have to come up with solutions that keep people in place. That’s a moral issue, it’s a humanitarian issue, and it doesn’t rest with individual owners, it rests with all of us.
Jacqueline Waggoner, President, Solutions Division
Resources

Preservation: A Way Forward

“Use what you have” sounds simple. But in the affordable housing realm, preservation is an innovative strategy — the most cost-effective, sustainable way to pro...

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Home for Good: Strategies to Prevent Eviction and Promote Housing Stability

The harms exacted by the eviction process expand well beyond America’s families. Eviction has exceedingly destabilized the affordable housing industry at large,...

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Pacific Northwest Rural Rental Preservation Academy

These no-cost training and peer-learning sessions help rural housing providers, and nonprofits acquire and preserve USDA Rural Development, HUD 811 and 202, Low...

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Denver Regional TOD Fund

Denver Regional TOD Fund Term Sheet

The Fund provides financing for the acquisition of property alongside transit corridors for the preservation or development of affordable homes and community fa...

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News, Events, and Blogs

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Increasing Funding for Housing Trust Funds in Georgia
Southeast | Preservation and Production
Event
2024 Faith-Based Development Initiative Summit
Detroit | Faith-Based Development | Gulf Coast | Mid-Atlantic | Pacific Northwest | Southeast | Preservation Equity | Preservation and Production
News
Enterprise Seeks Partner for a Multi-Year Evaluation of an Innovative NYC Eviction Prevention Program
Eviction Prevention | New York | Program Design and Evaluation

Meet Our Team

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Jennie Rodgers

VP, Rocky Mountain, Tribal Nations, and Rural Communities Markets
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David Bowers

VP, Mid-Atlantic Market and Sr. Advisor, Faith-Based Development Initiative