This template is available for use as part of the Health Action Plan Strategy Prioritization Exercise.

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.

Centering Healing, Serving Community: Lessons Learned from Health Action Planning in Chicago

With virtual engagement becoming the new normal, what can we do to make sure that we create a good and meaningful experience for those involved?

This poem was authored and shared by Leslé Honoré for Enterprise's Centering Healing, Serving Community event, part of the Health Begins with Home webinar series sponsored by Citi.

The Enterprise Faith-Based Development Initiative^SM (Enterprise FBDI^SM) engages and assists the faith community in affordable housing and community development through training, capital, and expertise, connecting them with the resources needed to realize their development goals.

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.

This brief offers insight into recommended practices for the community engagement step of the Health Action Plan and provides adaptable community engagement strategies to provide a safe way of collecting community feedback during the Covid-19 pandemic.

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.

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.