Affordable Housing

Recent Grants

Affordable Housing Preservation
Housing Policy
Public Housing

Affordable Housing Preservation

Number of Grants: 63

Business and Professional People for the Public Interest (Chicago, Illinois)
$200,000 to support activities related to the Preservation Compact: An Action Plan for Cook County (over three years). (2009)

Business and Professional People for the Public Interest (Chicago, Illinois)
$175,000 in support of activities related to the Preservation Compact (over two years). (2007)

Center For Housing Policy (Washington, D.C.)
$185,000 to develop a methodology to measure the cost of rental housing preservation, and the complete a Request for Qualifications process to identify organizations interested in conducting a cost study using the methodology. (2008)

Center for Neighborhood Technology (Chicago, Illinois)
$300,000 in support of activities related to the Preservation Compact (over three years). (2007)

Chicago Rehab Network (Chicago, Illinois)
$375,000 in support of technical assistance, organizing, policy and advocacy related to the Preservation Compact (over three years). (2007)

City and County of Denver (Denver, Colorado)
$250,000 to create an early-warning system for the preservation of affordable rental housing (over three years). (2008)

City of New York, Department of Housing Preservation and Development (New York, New York)
$150,000 in support of a project to develop a comprehensive rental housing database, analyze the existing stock of government-assisted rental housing, and assess and improve the organizational capacity of key housing agencies. (2006)

City of Seattle Department of Housing (Seattle, Washington)
$300,000 in support of capacity building with developers to preserve affordable housing in Seattle (over three years). (2008)

Community Economic Development Assistance Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts)
$1,000,000 to support a comprehensive strategy to preserve affordable rental housing in Massachusetts (over three years). (2008)

Community Investment Corporation (Chicago, Illinois)
$100,000 to preserve and improve more than 1,000 existing affordable rental homes in low-income areas of Chicago. (2008)

Community Investment Corporation (Chicago, Illinois)
$150,000 in support of a project to preserve and improve more than 2,800 existing affordable rental homes in low-income areas of Chicago. (2006)

Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Los Angeles (Los Angeles, California)
$300,000 to support a targeted strategy to preserve affordable single room occupancy units in Los Angeles (over three years). (2008)

Cook County Assessor's Office (Chicago, Illinois)
$73,000 in support of affordable housing programs related to The Preservation Compact (over three years). (2008)

Corporation for Enterprise Development (Washington, D.C.)
$315,000 to support a national conference and a communications research and planning project to promote policy reforms that help preserve and improve affordable rental homes throughout the United States. (2007)

Corporation for Enterprise Development (Washington, D.C.)
$400,000 in support of a national conference and a communications research and planning project to promote policy reforms that help preserve and improve affordable rental homes throughout the United States. (2006)

DePaul University (Chicago, Illinois)
$3,500,000 in support of a data clearinghouse, research, and a council to coordinate public agencies that are key members of the Preservation Compact (over three years). (2007)

Family Housing Fund (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
$750,000 in support of an early-warning system, outreach to private owners, and policy development to preserve affordable rental housing in Minnesota (over three years). (2008)

Florida Community Loan Fund (Orlando, Florida)
$200,000 in support of policy work related to the preservation of affordable rental housing in Florida (over two years). (2007)

Florida Housing Coalition (Inverness, Florida)
$475,000 to build the capacity of nonprofit housing developers to preserve affordable rental housing (over three years). (2008)

Florida Housing Finance Corporation (Tallahassee, Florida)
$25,000 to support the preservation of affordable rental housing in Florida. (2008)

Gulf Coast Housing Partnership (New Orleans, Louisiana)
$250,000 to strengthen the affordable housing developer's financial infrastructure through new staffing and information technology. (2008)

Housing Assistance Council (Washington, D.C.)
$100,000 in support of general operations. (2008)

Housing Development Corporation (Lancaster, Pennsylvania)
$250,000 to support preservation of affordable rental housing in central Pennsylvania (over two years). (2007)

Housing Partnership Network (Boston, Massachusetts)
$150,000 in support of general operations. (2008)

Housing Partnership Network (Boston, Massachusetts)
$250,000 in support of ongoing staffing costs associated with the Housing Partnership Exchange (over two years). (2007)

Hudson Institute (Washington, D.C.)
$600,000 in support of research on affordable rental housing (over two years). (2007)

Iowa Finance Authority (Des Moines, Iowa)
$400,000 to create an early-warning system and build developer capacity to preserve affordable rental housing in Iowa (over three years). (2008)

Local Initiatives Support Corporation (Chicago, Illinois)
$350,000 to support the administrative costs related to the formation and closing of the Chicago/Cook County Preservation Loan Facility, as part of The Preservation Compact. (2008)

Los Angeles Housing Department (Los Angeles, California)
$700,000 to support a comprehensive strategy to preserve affordable housing in Los Angeles (over three years). (2008)

Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development (Crownsville, Maryland)
$500,000 in support of a comprehensive strategy to preserve affordable housing in eight counties affected by the Federal Base Realignment and Closure process (over three years). (2008)

Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City (New York, New York)
$500,000 to develop and implement a technology platform to help manage and preserve government-assisted rental housing. (2008)

National Church Residences (Columbus, Ohio)
$150,000 to provide general operating support to a leading nonprofit organization dedicated to the development and preservation of affordable rental housing throughout the United States. (2009)

National Housing Conference (Washington, D.C.)
$200,000 to support a symposium on affordable rental housing preservation. (2009)

National Housing Conference (Washington, D.C.)
$395,000 to conduct four regional conferences on policies to promote rental housing preservation (over two years). (2008)

National Housing Conference (Washington, D.C.)
$353,000 in support of conferences, policy papers, and communications related to affordable rental housing. (2007)

National Housing Law Project (Oakland, California)
$135,000 in support of general operations. (2008)

National Housing Trust (Washington, D.C.)
$175,000 in support of general operations. (2008)

National Housing Trust (Washington, D.C.)
$700,000 in support of general operations (over three years). (2006)

National Low Income Housing Coalition (Washington, D.C.)
$175,000 in support of general operations (over two years). (2008)

Neighborhood Reinvestment (Washington, D.C.)
$125,000 in support of the Strength Matters project. (2008)

Neighborhood Reinvestment (Washington, D.C.)
$250,000 to support a research project examining methods for assessing the organizational strength of nonprofit rental housing owners and strategies for improving financial reporting conventions and facilitating coordination among investors (over two years). (2007)

Network for Oregon Affordable Housing (Portland, Oregon)
$1,000,000 in support of a comprehensive strategy to preserve affordable housing in Oregon (over three years). (2008)

New York University School of Law Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy (New York, New York)
$940,000 in support of an early-warning system and analytic tools to identify opportunities to preserve affordable rental housing in New York City (over three years). (2008)

New York University School of Law, Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy (New York, New York)
$125,000 in support of a three-part study investigating investments in rental housing in New York City. (2006)

NHP Foundation (Washington, D.C.)
$200,000 to develop a strategic business plan for large-scale preservation of affordable rental housing in multiple regions of the U.S. (2008)

Ohio Capital Finance Corporation (Columbus, Ohio)
$1,000,000 in support of a comprehensive strategy to preserve affordable rental housing in Ohio (over three years). (2008)

Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania)
$1,000,000 in support of energy-related efforts to preserve affordable rental housing in Pennsylvania (over three years). (2008)

Preservation of Affordable Housing (Boston, Massachusetts)
$250,000 in support of general operations (over two years). (2007)

Reinvestment Fund, Urban Growth Partners (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
$450,000 in support of PolicyMap, a national data warehouse and mapping tool. (2008)

Retirement Housing Foundation (Long Beach, California)
$250,000 to support a strategic planning initiative to build and preserve affordable rental housing. (2007)

Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law (Chicago, Illinois)
$250,000 in support of legal assistance, policy and advocacy related to the Preservation Compact (over three years). (2007)

State of Washington Department of Community, Trade and Economic Development (Olympia, Washington)
$700,000 in support of capacity building, data analysis, and policy development to preserve affordable housing in Washington (over three years). (2008)

Stewards of Affordable Housing for the Future (Washington, D.C.)
$200,000 in support of general operations. (2008)

Stewards of Affordable Housing for the Future (Washington, D.C.)
$300,000 in support of data collection and analysis of energy consumption in affordable rental housing. (2007)

ULI Foundation (Washington, D.C.)
$800,000 in support of The Preservation Compact: A Rental Housing Strategy for Cook County (over four years). (2008)

ULI Foundation (Washington, D.C.)
$400,000 in support of the Preservation Compact: A Rental Housing Strategy for Cook County (over three years). (2007)

ULI Foundation (Washington, D.C.)
$240,000 in support of the Preservation Compact: A Rental Housing Strategy for Cook County. (2007)

ULI Foundation (Washington, D.C.)
$250,000 in support of the Preservation Compact: A Rental Housing Strategy for Cook County (over six months). (2006)

University of Florida Shimberg Center for Affordable Housing (Gainesville, Florida)
$500,000 in support of an early-warning system for the preservation of affordable rental housing (over three years). (2008)

University of Florida, Shimberg Center for Affordable Housing (Gainesville, Florida)
$172,000 to support data collection for local and state-wide preservation efforts in Florida and the development of a national data infrastructure for housing preservation (over eighteen months). (2006)

Urban Homesteading Assistance Board (New York, New York)
$100,000 to support research and communications about the impact of predatory speculation on the preservation of assisted rental housing (over two years). (2009)

Urban Homesteading Assistance Board (New York, New York)
$150,000 in support of policy advocacy and coalition-building to preserve distressed affordable rental housing in New York City (over three years). (2007)

Vermont Housing and Conservation Board (Montpelier, Vermont)
$600,000 in support of a comprehensive strategy to preserve affordable housing in Vermont (over three years). (2008)

Housing Policy

Number of Grants: 20

American Sunrise A Non-Profit Cisneros Communities Venture (San Antonio, Texas)
$50,000 in support of the HOPE VI Book Project. (2008)

Boston Medical Center Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts)
$750,000 in support of C-SNAP to study the relationship between housing instability and the health of very young children (over three years). (2008)

Center For Housing Policy (Washington, D.C.)
$900,000 in support of research on housing strategies that benefit working families (over three years). (2006)

Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
$75,000 in support of three housing policy case studies. (2006)

Harvard University, Joint Center for Housing Studies (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
$1,000,000 in support of research on rental housing trends and issues (over three years). (2007)

Harvard University, Joint Center for Housing Studies (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
$100,000 in support of historical research on national housing policy between 1970 and 2005 (over two years). (2006)

Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (Boston, Massachusetts)
$300,000 to analyze the effects that the housing and real estate sectors have on inner-city jobs and economies (over two years). (2008)

Johns Hopkins University Institute for Policy Studies (Baltimore, Maryland)
$350,000 in support of research on the effects of housing affordability on children's well-being (over two years). (2006)

Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City (New York, New York)
$300,000 to support the design of a long-term study of the health and education impacts of subsidized housing on low-income residents of New York City. (2008)

National Housing Conference (Washington, D.C.)
$30,000 in support of a policy summit titled Fulfilling the Dream: Shaping Housing Policy for Future Generations. (2006)

National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois)
$1,112,000 in support of a longitudinal study of public housing residents and their experiences of relocation, services, and effects. (2008)

National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois)
$225,000 in support of a study of relocating leaseholders of the Chicago Housing Authority. (2008)

New York University School of Law Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy (New York, New York)
$72,000 in support of a conference on transforming America's housing policy. (2009)

Northwestern University Institute for Policy Research (Evanston, Illinois)
$250,000 to scientifically assess the health effects of Housing Choice Vouchers on low-income adults (over two years). (2008)

Northwestern University Institute for Policy Research (Evanston, Illinois)
$752,000 in support of the first phase of activities for a research network on how housing matters for the American family (over two years). (2008)

Northwestern University, Institute for Policy Research (Evanston, Illinois)
$50,000 in support of the Moving-to-Opportunity program (over two years). (2008)

Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School Office of Population Research (Princeton, New Jersey)
$445,000 to research the effects of new mixed-income housing on the lives of residents, on people living in adjacent neighborhoods, and on the surrounding community (over two years). (2008)

University of California, Irvine (Irvine, California)
$65,000 to support the policy symposium, Housing after the Fall: Reassessing the Future of the American Dream. (2008)

University of Wisconsin â?? Madison Department of Sociology (Madison, Wisconsin)
$152,000 in support of an analysis of the effects of eviction on the lives of low-income renters (over two years). (2008)

Wayne State University School of Social Work (Detroit, Michigan)
$375,000 to research the effect of neighborhood conditions on adult outcomes of children who lived in public housing (over two years). (2008)

Public Housing

Number of Grants: 31

Abraham Lincoln Centre (Chicago, Illinois)
$375,000 in support of efforts at Lake Park Crescent to help ensure a successful mixed-income development and broader community revitalization (over three years). (2006)

Business and Professional People for the Public Interest (Chicago, Illinois)
$400,000 in support of the monitoring, technical assistance, and advisory role to mixed-income developments under the Plan for Transformation (over three years). (2007)

Chapin Hall Center for Children (Chicago, Illinois)
$400,000 in support of a collaborative approach to analysis of administrative data to improve the delivery of social services to low-income families in Illinois (over two years). (2006)

Chicago Community Foundation (Chicago, Illinois)
$750,000 for the Partnership for New Communities' participation in the Workforce Development Initiative for public housing residents (over two years). (2006)

Chicago Housing Authority (Chicago, Illinois)
$200,000 in support of expansion of the Family Self-Sufficiency program (over two years). (2007)

Chicago Housing Authority (Chicago, Illinois)
$100,000 to support improvements to workforce development and social service delivery systems. (2007)

Chicago Housing Authority (Chicago, Illinois)
$50,000 in support of the Council of Large Public Housing Authorities at the annual conference in Chicago. (2006)

Chicago Housing Authority (Chicago, Illinois)
$100,000 in support of the Leadership Academy's professional development program. (2006)

Chicago Housing Authority (Chicago, Illinois)
$200,000 in support of planning for redevelopment of Ickes and Dearborn public housing sites. (2006)

Chicago Jobs Council (Chicago, Illinois)
$435,000 in support of employment related services to help low-income families succeed in new mixed-income housing. (2006)

Chicago Video Project (Chicago, Illinois)
$225,000 to support the creation of a visual record of The Plan for Transformation of public housing in Chicago (over three years). (2006)

Community Renewal Society, Chicago Reporter (Chicago, Illinois)
$150,000 in support of in-depth reporting on the resettlement of public housing families in Chicago neighborhoods (over two years). (2007)

Council of Large Public Housing Authorities (Washington, D.C.)
$625,000 in support of a six-city cost-benefit study of the economic impacts of mixed-income communities on surrounding neighborhoods and local public finances. (2006)

Field Museum (Chicago, Illinois)
$375,000 in support of efforts at Lake Park Crescent to help ensure a successful mixed-income development and broader community revitalization (over three years). (2006)

Heartland Human Care Services (Chicago, Illinois)
$600,000 in support of Improving Outcomes for Hard-to-House public housing families (over four years). (2006)

Illinois Facilities Fund (Chicago, Illinois)
$100,000 in support of planning and technical support for the development of a community facility in Chicago's Mid-South and Near West Side areas. (2007)

Illinois Facilities Fund (Chicago, Illinois)
$400,000 in support of planning and technical support for the development of community facilities in Chicago's Mid-South area. (2006)

Northwestern University Institute for Policy Research (Evanston, Illinois)
$1,800,000 in support of the final evaluation of the Moving to Opportunity demonstration (over five years). (2006)

One Economy Corporation (Washington, D.C.)
$150,000 for a technology program related to the Chicago Housing Authority's Plan for Transformation of public housing. (2008)

Richard H. Driehaus Foundation (Chicago, Illinois)
$15,000 in support of a charette to help create a concept for a Museum of Public Housing in Chicago. (2007)

Social Science Research Council (New York, New York)
$225,000 to develop a research framework and associated designs to evaluate the effects of mixed-income public housing and other assisted housing communities on resident opportunities and outcomes. (2007)

Stateway Community Partners (Chicago, Illinois)
$500,000 to provide local match funding for an application for a $20 million HOPE VI grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (over two years). (2008)

Stateway Community Partners (Chicago, Illinois)
$500,000 to sustain a successful case management and service coordination model at a mixed-income development under the Plan for Transformation of public housing in Chicago (over two years). (2007)

Urban Institute (Washington, D.C.)
$30,000 in support of a U.S.-U.K. study exchange related to mixed-income communities. (2008)

Urban Institute (Washington, D.C.)
$100,000 to support an extension of the U.S.-U.K. study exchange related to mixed-income communities, immigration, and comprehensive community development (over two years). (2008)

Urban Institute (Washington, D.C.)
$575,000 to support research on outcomes for residents of the Madden/Wells public housing development (over two years). (2008)

Urban Institute (Washington, D.C.)
$70,000 in support of planning a study on the long-term sustainability of HOPE VI developments. (2007)

Urban Institute (Washington, D.C.)
$70,000 in support of a collaborative planning effort with the National Opinion Research Center to design longitudinal research on public housing residents in Chicago. (2007)

Urban Institute (Washington, D.C.)
$30,000 in support of targeted research and program planning to establish a framework for a demonstration for "hard-to-house" Chicago Housing Authority residents. (2006)

Urban Institute (Washington, D.C.)
$250,000 in support of Improving Outcomes for Hard-to-House public housing families. (2006)

We the People Media (Chicago, Illinois)
$125,000 in support of the "Residents' Journal," a publication written by and for public housing residents (over two years). (2008)