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Resident Services is just one of many programs Enterprise has to offer. Photo: Mike Elliott |
Enterprise promotes decent, affordable housing for low-income Americans through a variety of avenues.
Research has shown that decent, affordable housing can
- Reduce health problems associated with exposure to allergens, neurotoxins, and other dangers in the home by allowing families to access better quality housing.
- Increase residential stability, allowing families to avoid unwanted moves that lead children to change schools, which may impair their educational progress.
- Derease residential crowding and other sources of housing-related stress that lead to negative developmental and educational outcomes for children.
Two new in-depth research analyses of the impact of housing on health and education reveal the critical role of decent, affordable rental and owned homes. The research sheds light on the many ways that housing helps ensure a brighter future for children and their families and makes a strong case for elevating housing to its rightful place on the national agenda.
Green Communities
Green Communities provides grants, financing, tax-credit equity and technical assistance to developers for creating low-income housing according to Green criteria.
For more, see the Green Communities website.
Gulf Coast Rebuilding Initiative
Enterprise has committed $200 million to help create more than 10,000 healthy, sustainable homes through our Gulf Coast Rebuilding Initiative by 2008.
Homeownership
For most American families, their homes are their largest assets, so Enterprise works to increase homeownership among low-income families. Because the markets vary greatly from city to city, so do our approaches.
Preserving Affordable Housing
In partnership with the National Housing Trust, Enterprise provides funding to purchase and preserve affordable housing that is in danger of being sold and converted into market-rate housing. We also work to preserve affordable housing built with Low-Income Housing Tax Credits, which required the housing to remain affordable to low-income people for 15 years. Our for-profit subsidiary is helping keep these properties affordable past “Year 15.” Learn more on the Enterprise Community Investment website.
Resident Services
Providing services along with affordable housing promotes the quality of life for residents by helping them land and keep a decent job, find and afford quality care for their children and locate and benefit from available social services. Resident Services offer support onsite or in the neighborhood to help people stabilize their lives and transition to independence.
Schools and Communities
If a home is a family’s first step on the path out of poverty, education is a child’s first step. Improving school performance simultaneously with improving homes and economic opportunity can help stabilize a community’s comeback. Our Schools and Communities Initiative is dedicated to capturing, documenting and illuminating the successful efforts to combine these two critical foundations for a family's success.
Supportive Housing
Supportive Housing helps those in the greatest need live as independently as possible. Through the Supportive Housing Investment Partnership, Enterprise and the Corporation for Supportive Housing provide grants, low-interest loans, technical expertise, tax credit investments and advocacy to support the creation of housing for homeless people or those at risk of becoming homeless.
Awards Programs
These ongoing programs provide recognition and financial support.
Our Fellowships offer young professionals the opportuity to be exposed to the work of Enterprise. We are currently recruiting candidates for all of the following fellowships.
- Frederick P. Rose Architectural Fellowship
- Bart Harvey Enterprise Fellowship
- Terwilliger Fellowship
- Freddie Mac Enterprise Fellowship
Native American Program
Out Native American Program provides loans, grants and equity to build or rehabilitate low-income housing in or near tribal land.
Donate now through Network for Good or learn about other ways to become involved with Enterprise.
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