Comments on the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Request for Input (RFI) on programs, regulations, collections of information, and policies for the agency to consider modifying, streamlining, expanding, or repealing in light of recent Executive Orders. The efforts aim to guide FEMA to effectively achieve the agency’s mission in a manner that furthers the goals of advancing equity for all, including those in underserved communities and bolstering resilience from the impacts of climate change.

Enterprise Community Partners and Housing Partnership Network are working together to launch a series of white papers Advancing Opportunity Through Affordable Housing. With contributions from the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at the University of California at Berkeley, the series focuses on accelerating promising ideas to address longstanding community development challenges in the current environment.

This analysis uses a national tract-level database of Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics, American Community Survey and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development data to assess commute patterns for people who live in high-poverty neighborhoods.

The session highlights development projects that have effectively preserved properties by using unique approaches and resources including the Coal Severance Tax Trust Fund.

The Pacific Northwest Rural Rental Housing Preservation Academy is a series of no-cost training and peer learning sessions designed to help rural housing providers and nonprofits acquire and/or preserve USDA Rural Development, HUD 811 and 202, LIHTC and other subsidized and affordable housing in rural Washington and Oregon communities.

Enterprise strongly opposes HUD’s proposed rule on the verification of eligible status that would prohibit “mixed-status families” from living in public and other subsidized housing.

From solutions on how to address the Covid-19 housing disaster to eliminating racial disparities in the housing market, Enterprise’s playbook includes 47 results-driven recommendations the Biden-Harris Administration and Congress should implement to ensure safe, stable and affordable housing for all Americans.

The Pacific Northwest Rural Rental Housing Preservation Academy is a series of no-cost training and peer learning sessions designed to help rural housing providers and nonprofits acquire and/or preserve USDA Rural Development, HUD 811 and 202, LIHTC and other subsidized and affordable housing in rural Washington and Oregon communities.

Comments to the IRS on the proposed rule to implement the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit’s Average Income Test (AIT)

Affordable housing organizations face unique challenges during emergency events. Having an effective, well-coordinated plan in place before disaster strikes can make all the difference in the recovery for Multifamily buildings, partner agencies, and the safety of tenants.