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Enterprise’s 2008 annual report, “Every Home Counts, Every Dollar Counts,” demonstrates how we work – Connecting Capital to Communities, Innovating Solutions for Communities and Transforming Policy for Long-term Change. |
2010
by Chris Walker
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Drawing on the experience of the federal Low-Income Housing Tax Credit program in New York City, this report joins a growing body of technical research examining the tax credit’s value to communities and low-income families nationwide.
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2003
by New Mexico Tribal Homeownership Coalition
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This manual is a comprehensive overview of the steps required to create homeownership opportunities for tribal members living on reservation land, with a focus on the biggest obstacle: the mortgage lending process.
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2009
by My B. Trinh
Enterprise Community Partners
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This report profiles three funds created to leverage acquisition and predevelopment capital, and turn limited government and foundation funds into valuable resources that build strong, sustainable communities: the D.C. Preservation Pool, the New York City Acquisition Fund and the New Generation Fund in Los Angeles. As of September 2009, these funds have collectively helped to create or preserve nearly 4,000 affordable homes. The report discusses the catalyst for each of the three funds, and evaluates their impact amid the current credit crisis.
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2007
Enterprise Community Partners, Center for Housing and Policy Research
2007
Enterprise Community Partners, Center for Housing and Policy Research
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These seven manuals help providers and community development practitioners improve the supply, quality and affordability of child care in low-income communities. Each book includes a substantial resources section for more information and support.
2005
by the National Center for Healthy Housing and Enterprise Community Partners
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From 2003 to 2005, the Rochester and Syracuse, New York, Home-Based Child Care Lead Safety Program created 25 healthy and safe child-care homes that minimized the risks of unintentional injury and lead poisoning, while improving energy efficiency and indoor air quality. This 180-page document details the lessons learned, as well as outreach and education materials, income-qualification analyses, construction specifications, relocation planning tools and consent documents. |
2004
Handbook by Kathy Modigliani, Ellen Moore and the Family Child Care Project
Video by Porchlight Productions, Megan Sheer, Michael J. Moore
Produced by Enterprise
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Available in English and Spanish, this one-hour video and companion handbook help child-care providers transform their homes into high-quality environments for children to learn and grow.
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2003
by Diana Meyer, Elizabeth Smith, Toni Porter, Sabina Cardenas
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This book documents the work of seven child care partnership programs in six cities. The programs were designed to create or support networks of home-based child care providers or to develop home repair or homeownership programs for providers of home-based child care. You will find a wealth of information such as lessons learned, background, contacts and resources. |
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2003
by Richard Mendel
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This guide helps communities steer youth away from crime toward a safe, productive future. It features 20 strategies for promoting youth development and healthy adulthood, case studies from the nation’s most successful youth crime-prevention programs and seven steps for developing a community campaign against youth crime. |
1997
by Enterprise Community Partners, Inc., Consortium for Housing and Asset Management
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This manual examines the approach used by property managers when establishing procedures for preventing crime. Both owners and managers have the obligation to provide residents with safe housing. This publication discusses the steps that can lead to a safer community. |
2001
by John Campbell
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This book identifies barriers to solving chronic nuisance problems, discusses ways that experienced leaders find solutions and provides a set of references for pursuing specific nuisance abatement goals. It provides resources that lead you to examples of nuisance laws and case studies that cover how others have solved chronic nuisance problems. It also helps you understand how community leaders approach such problems. |
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2009
by Amanda Sheldon, Phillip Bush, Aaron Kearsley and Anne Gass
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Under the Neighborhood Stabilization Program, 306 state and local governments provided action plans detailing how they would use their funds to confront the foreclosure crisis and stabilize communities. This report summarizes those plans and highlights promising approaches. It is based on a review and analysis of 87 of the NSP action plans, including 22 states, 24 counties and 41 cities, which together comprise 58 percent of the total NSP national allocation.
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2007
by Tony Proscio
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This book details this national model that began before Minnesota Green Communities and continues today. It includes strong state and local leadership, an inclusive process that joins a diverse coalition of stakeholders and a clear, collective vision for sustainable development based on the Green Communities framework. These ingredients can be and are applicable elsewhere. This book details the efforts and distills key lessons for those interested in similar systems change in their states. |
2008
by Stockton Williams
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A new Enterprise publication that makes the case for a national commitment to increase the energy efficiency in affordable housing, especially homes for low-income people. A relatively modest federal investment in such a commitment would deliver significant environmental and economic benefits and help make progress in the fight against climate change by unleashing innovation among a wide range of private, public and community-based organizations. |
2007
by the Center for Transit-Oriented Development
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This study reviews the demand for housing near transit; explores the benefits of mixed-income, transit-oriented neighborhoods; analyzes the barriers to creating such communities; offers an array of tools for overcoming those barriers; and applies those tools in the context of four planned transit station areas in metro Denver. |
2006
by Enterprise Community Partners and National Center for Healthy Homes
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Three national housing organizations--Enterprise Community Partners, the National Center for Healthy Housing and NeighborWorks® America--teamed up with Neighborhood Housing Services of New Orleans to develop the cleanup protocols presented in this guide. The clean-up methods are based on scientific research and best practices unique to the destruction in the Gulf Coast region wrought by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. |
2005
by James Tassos
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This report discusses how states are using the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit to develop healthy, efficient and sustainable homes for low-income people. The analysis examines three key areas of green development: smart-site locations, energy and resource conservation and healthy living environments. |
2006
by James Tassos
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This analysis builds on Enterprise’s 2005 report, A Greener Plan: How States are Using the Housing Credit to Advance Sustainability. That report analyzed 2005 Housing Credit allocation plans and found most states had begun to encourage healthy, smart and efficient building through their Housing Credit programs. |
2007
by James Tassos
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This report provides background on the Housing Credit program; describes the methodology used to analyze the 2007 state Housing Credit allocation plans; discusses implementation of sustainable development policies through the Housing Credit program; and presents the green elements in every state's 2007 allocation plan, sorted by the aforementioned categories. |
2005
by Tony Proscio
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In June 2004, Enterprise, the National Center for Healthy Housing and the Annie E. Casey Foundation sponsored the conference “Healthier Homes, Stronger Families.” This paper is a follow-up to the conference. |
2009
By Dana Bourland
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This report highlights the incremental cost of building to meet Enterprise Green Communities Criteria and outlines the long term-benefits of green building methods. It includes powerful data from more than three years of learning and outlines a path to a greener affordable housing future. |
2002
By Jennifer Kao
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This overview illustrates and documents successful community garden projects generated by community-based organizations and highlights best practices to help organizations develop open-space projects. Much of the material comes from efforts in New York City, but should be useful for organizations across the nation. Community-based organizations can use this overview to develop community garden projects. |
2008
by Tony Proscio
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There is now a cohort, expanding year by year, of experienced green affordable housing developers with useful stories to tell. Although the field is relatively rich with technical and practical information about green housing, it is only in the last few years that it has become possible to produce a broad, detailed account of sustainable development drawn from green housing developers themselves. This report is one attempt to collect those firsthand experiences and lessons from participants in eight Green Communities developments. Together, they form a kind of present-tense dispatch from the front lines of the revolution. |
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2009
by Diana A. Meyer, Trevor Britt, Sabina Cardenas, David Fromm, Ian Kennedy, Patricia Magnuson, Rich Petersen, Jennifer Covert, Vikram Khanna, Alexandra Nassau-Brownstone, Janet E. Raffe
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See the online version: Resident Services Tutorial
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The manual describes how to determine what services would most benefit your residents, and then how to fund, staff, design, implement, partner and measure the effectiveness of those services. Each section includes an overview along with multiple model documents to help you get started immediately with hands-on, helpful tools you can adapt quickly to fit your needs. |
2006
by Tony Proscio
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This report describes why low-income families need and benefit from access to resident services and how the programs work. It explores the impact that these services have on both families and valuable affordable housing assets, where experiences shows that the presence of resident services programs can benefit occupancy and rent collection and reduce evictions and maintenance costs. |
Program Costs and Staffing Benchmarks for Planning Resident Services for Families
2006
by Gore Flynn, Enterprise Resources Corporation
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The book is an effort to provide guidance for resident services program planning, by identifying norms for the costs of operating resident services programs. It compiles detailed research of the operations and budgets. |
2007
by James Tassos
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Through their qualified allocation plans (QAPs) for Low Income Housing Tax Credits, many states are using a variety of different incentives to support the inclusion of resident services in the development of affordable housing. This report outlines and summarizes the use of three types of incentives: threshold requirements, credit set-asides and scoring incentives as described in the 2007 plans for each state.
Review the 2005 report, Building Opportunities for Families into Affordable Housing
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2008
by Jill Khadduri, Heather Schwartz, and Jennifer Turnham
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This paper shows community developers how to work with school systems to improve individual schools. Researchers distilled lessons from community development practitioners working to improve elementary schools as part of neighborhood revitalization projects in 12 low-income communities across the country. The paper describes how to be an effective advocate for individual school change as an outsider to the school system, but one with a long-term interest in the neighborhood. |
2008
by Jill Khadduri, Heather Schwartz, and Jennifer Turnham
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This paper is the third in a series of three commissioned by Enterprise Community Partners as part of a collaborative project on school-centered community revitalization. The purpose of the project was to develop practical guidance and policies to encourage community developers to incorporate improved schools into their neighborhood revitalization strategies. Enterprise and other like-minded community developers call this model "school-centered community revitalization." This final report presents a set of policy recommendations to test and expand the concept of school-centered community revitalization. |
2006
by Leslie Fenwick
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This monograph summarizes the work of the Mechanicsville Community Learning Collaborative (MCLC), a five-year school-anchored community development initiative based in Atlanta, Georgia. MCLC focused on systematically transforming the lives of children who attend Dunbar Elementary School. This pilot initiative employed a comprehensive community development strategy based on Dunbar being a point of leverage for community change in Mechanicsville and vice versa. This report explores the work that can be done, and the results that can be achieved, at the intersections of community building, school reform, and neighborhood revitalization. |
2007
by Jill Khadduri, Heather Schwartz, Jennifer Turnham of Abt Associates, Inc.
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This paper provides an introduction to school-centered community revitalization. Part 1 presents the case for integrating school improvement into community development, drawing on the academic research linking school and neighborhood quality as well as early results from school-centered community revitalization projects across the country. Part 2 presents the core components of school-centered community revitalization, including both school-based activities and neighborhood-based activities. The final part of the paper illustrates the diverse approaches currently being taken to improve schools and neighborhoods, drawing on the experiences of eight school-centered community revitalization initiatives in five cities: Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago. |
2005
by Tony Proscio
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This report describes the remarkable results of efforts in four neighborhoods in three cities to connect community-based revitalization initiatives with school reform programs in the same neighborhoods. In some of the most challenged communities in Baltimore, St. Louis and Atlanta, low-income children, schools and neighborhoods are making real progress as a result of these coordinated approaches. |
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2010
by Leo Quigley
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From scarcity of capital to costs of services and design, meeting the needs of an older population that is more diverse and seeking more independence in their living options has become increasingly complex. Find out how some of Enterprise’s senior housing development partners overcame these challenges to tap numerous capital sources, fund operations and supportive services, and build lean and green. |
MetLife Awards for Excellence in Affordable Housing: Green and Service-Enriched Senior Housing
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Since 1995, MetLife Foundation has funded these awards, and each year, Enterprise publishes case studies profiling the winning programs.
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Ending Homeless for Families: The Evidence for Affordable Housing
2009
by Dr. Marybeth Shinn
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With the National Alliance to End Homelessness, Enterprise commissioned a review of existing research on family homelessness. Conducted by leading homelessness expert Dr. Marybeth Shinn of Vanderbilt University, the brief affirms that family homelessness is primarily an economic and housing affordability |
2007
James Tassos
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The Supportive Housing Investment Partnership has updated its compressive look at the innovative policies states have adopted to foster and encourage supportive housing development within qualified allocation plans for the Low Income Housing Tax Credit, analyzing each of the 50 states’ 2007 Housing Credit allocation plans. |
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2006
by James Tassos
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Published by the Supportive Housing Investment Partnership, this document is the first-ever comprehensive look at the innovative policies states have adopted to foster and encourage supportive housing development within qualified allocation plans for the Low Income Housing Tax Credit. It was developed as a basic resource for supportive housing developers, policymakers and advocates interested in advancing public policies that dedicate financial resources for the development of supportive housing. |
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