Affordable Housing

Recent Grants

Affordable Housing Preservation
Housing Policy
Public Housing

Affordable Housing Preservation

Number of Grants: 29

Affordable Housing Corporation of Lake County (Gurnee, Illinois)
$50,000 to preserve affordable rental housing in Lake County, Illinois. (2009)

Aspen Institute Business and Society Program (New York, New York)
$75,000 in support of the Business and Society Program's Finance Roundtable. (2011)

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)

Center For Housing Policy (Washington, D.C.)
$320,000 to refine and distribute an online model that analyzes comparative life-cycle costs of affordable rental housing production and preservation (over 18 months). (2011)

Center for Neighborhood Technology (Chicago, Illinois)
$400,000 to participate in The Preservation Compact (over three years). (2010)

Chicago Rehab Network (Chicago, Illinois)
$300,000 to participate in The Preservation Compact (over three years). (2010)

DePaul University (Chicago, Illinois)
$1,000,000 to support research, a data clearinghouse, and coordination of public agencies that participate in The Preservation Compact. (2010)

Enterprise Community Partners (Columbia, Maryland)
$200,000 to adopt the Energy Score Card for multifamily rental properties (over two years). (2011)

Harvard University Joint Center for Housing Studies (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
$500,000 to support a historical analysis of the affordable rental housing preservation industry and to prepare case studies of local impact (over three years). (2010)

Housing Assistance Council (Washington, D.C.)
$300,000 in support of general operations (over three years). (2010)

Housing Partnership Network (Boston, Massachusetts)
$450,000 in support of general operations (over three years). (2010)

Housing Partnership Network (Boston, Massachusetts)
$125,000 to research and develop a new national entity to acquire apartments with troubled loans and to reposition them as affordable rental housing. (2009)

Housing Preservation Project (St Paul, Minnesota)
$200,000 to protect the rights of tenants living in affordable rental housing properties (over two years). (2010)

Hudson Institute (Washington, D.C.)
$525,000 to development and apply a longitudinal rental housing database to strengthen rental preservation policies (over three years). (2010)

Living Cities: National Community Development Initiative (New York, New York)
$200,000 to promote large-scale energy efficient measures in the U.S. multifamily and commercial real estate sectors. (2011)

Metropolitan Planning Council (Chicago, Illinois)
$360,000 to participate in The Preservation Compact (over three years). (2010)

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.)
$150,000 to support a national meeting, Solutions for Sustainable Communities: 2011 Learning Conference on State and Local Housing Policy. (2011)

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

National Housing Law Project (San Francisco, California)
$530,000 in support of general operations (over three years). (2010)

National Housing Trust (Washington, D.C.)
$425,000 to create and maintain a comprehensive website about preserving affordable rental housing (over three years). (2011)

National Housing Trust (Washington, D.C.)
$450,000 in support of general operations (over three years). (2010)

National Housing Trust (Washington, D.C.)
$600,000 in support of a network of Foundation-supported state and local governmental entities engaged in affordable rental housing preservation, as part of the Window of Opportunity: Preserving Affordable Rental Housing initiative (over three years). (2009)

Neighborhood Reinvestment (Washington, D.C.)
$250,000 to support the Strength Matters collaborative and the development of an online Data Warehouse for nonprofit owners of affordable rental housing (over two years). (2010)

Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law (Chicago, Illinois)
$300,000 to participate in The Preservation Compact (over three years). (2010)

Stewards of Affordable Housing for the Future (Washington, D.C.)
$300,000 to facilitate energy conservation among leading operators of affordable multifamily housing (over 18 months). (2011)

Stewards of Affordable Housing for the Future (Washington, D.C.)
$700,000 in support of general operations (over three years). (2010)

The Reinvestment Fund (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
$250,000 to provide Foundation grantees with access to the PolicyMap web-based mapping tool (over three years). (2010)

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)

Housing Policy

Number of Grants: 42

Bipartisan Policy Center (Washington, D.C.)
$3,300,000 to host and execute the first phase of the Commission on Housing Policy for a Strong Economy (over 18 months). (2011)

Bipartisan Policy Center (Washington, D.C.)
$250,000 in support of research papers for the Housing Policy for a Strong Economy Initiative. (2011)

Boston College (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts)
$900,000 to study the impact of low-income families' housing decisions on children's well-being (over three years). (2010)

Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island)
$500,000 to study the relationship between compulsory savings and homeownership in Mexico (over three years). (2010)

Center for Community Change (Washington, D.C.)
$300,000 to support a communications and education campaign to increase state funding for affordable housing (over two years). (2010)

Center For Housing Policy (Washington, D.C.)
$1,000,000 to research housing strategies that benefit working families (over four years). (2009)

Center for Law and Social Policy (Washington, D.C.)
$10,000 to support a commentary series on topics covered at the Foundation's How Housing Matters conference. (2011)

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (Washington, D.C.)
$139,000 to develop and test a model for a renter tax credit. (2011)

Columbia University Department of Economics (New York, New York)
$192,496 to research the effects of environmental policy on infants in poor and minority neighborhoods, as part of the How Housing Matters to Families and Communities competitive grant program (over two years). (2009)

Cornell University (Ithaca, New York)
$360,000 to research the relationship between mental health and housing among young children, as part of the How Housing Matters to Families and Communities competitive grant program (over three years). (2009)

Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia)
$50,000 to revise a draft final report submitted to the Foundation entitled, Public Housing Transformation and Family Self-Sufficiency: a Case Study of Chicago and Atlanta Housing Authorities . (2010)

Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
$300,000 to expand the Milwaukee Area Renters Study on the implications of eviction on social, psychological, and economic outcomes (over two years). (2010)

Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
$1,800,000 to evaluate the effects of mixed-income housing on residents and communities (over three years). (2009)

Harvard University Joint Center for Housing Studies (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
$450,000 to research rental housing trends and issues (over two years). (2011)

Johns Hopkins University Institute for Policy Studies (Baltimore, Maryland)
$80,000 to analyze housing affordability and investments in children as part of the How Housing Matters to Families and Communities research program. (2011)

Johns Hopkins University Institute for Policy Studies (Baltimore, Maryland)
$300,000 to research the relationship between housing affordability and parental investment in children, as part of the How Housing Matters to Families and Communities competitive grant program (over two years). (2009)

Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City (New York, New York)
$1,000,000 to study the effects that living in subsidized housing has on child and family well-being (over three years). (2010)

National Building Museum (Washington, D.C.)
$250,000 in support of a conference on How Housing Matters. (2011)

National Housing Institute/Shelterforce Magazine (Montclair, New Jersey)
$50,000 in support of general operations to expand reporting on affordable housing through the publication, Shelterforce (over two years). (2011)

New York University School of Law Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy (New York, New York)
$800,000 to study the impact of involuntary housing moves on children's educational achievement (over three years). (2010)

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 (Evanston, Illinois)
$3,900,000 in support of the Research Network on How Housing Matters to Families and Children (over three years). (2010)

Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio)
$646,000 to research the effects that housing has on the well-being of children, as part of the How Housing Matters to Families and Communities competitive grant program (over three years). (2009)

Poverty and Race Research Action Council (Washington, D.C.)
$75,000 to support a national housing mobility conference, manual and toolkit. (2011)

Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey)
$10,000 in support of a dissertation on social organization of suburban poverty as part of the How Housing Matters to Families and Communities competitive grant program (over two years). (2009)

RAND (Santa Monica, California)
$600,000 to study the relationship between social networks and improved outcomes for poor residents of economically-integrated housing or neighborhoods (over two years). (2010)

RAND (Santa Monica, California)
$300,000 to research inclusionary zoning, as part of the How Housing Matters to Families and Communities competitive grant program (over two years). (2009)

Smart Growth America (Washington, D.C.)
$80,000 to recommend changes in federal policies related to capital programs and projects to revitalize low-income communities and preserve affordable rental housing. (2011)

St. Michael's Hospital (Toronto, Canada)
$738,000 to research the effects of mixed-income housing redevelopment on mental health and child development, as part of the How Housing Matters to Families and Communities competitive grant program (over three years). (2009)

Stanford University Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality (Stanford, California)
$25,000 to publish an issue of Pathways magazine dedicated to research on how housing matters to families and communities. (2011)

University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy Studies (Chicago, Illinois)
$200,000 to study the impact of childhood housing instability on health and education outcomes (over two-years). (2010)

University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration (Chicago, Illinois)
$710,000 to support the study, Building Mixed-Income Communities: Documenting the Chicago Experience (over three years). (2009)

University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign (Champaign, Illinois)
$226,000 to research the effect that housing instability has on children's health, as part of the How Housing Matters to Families and Communities competitive grant program (over two years). (2009)

University of Maryland System (College Park, Maryland)
$700,000 to investigate the long-term employment and earnings outcomes for children raised in federally-assisted and unsubsidized housing (over three years). (2011)

University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
$750,000 to research the effects of the foreclosure and economic crisis on vulnerable workers and families, as part of the How Housing Matters to Families and Communities competitive grant program (over three years). (2009)

University of Wisconsin - Madison Institute for Research on Poverty (Madison, Wisconsin)
$600,000 to research the effect of federal and state income support policies on homeownership stability and child maltreatment (over three years). (2010)

University of Wisconsin - Madison Institute for Research on Poverty (Madison, Wisconsin)
$194,000 to conduct a benefit-cost analysis of rental subsidies and economic independence among low-income families, as part of the How Housing Matters to Families and Communities competitive grant program (over two years). (2009)

Urban Institute (Washington, D.C.)
$125,000 to examine the relationship between public housing resident mobility and neighborhood crime patterns. (2011)

Urban Institute (Washington, D.C.)
$200,000 to support the What Works Collaborative to conduct timely research and analysis to help inform the design and implementation of evidence-based housing and urban policies (over two years). (2011)

Urban Institute (Washington, D.C.)
$750,000 to research the role of housing in child welfare outcomes, as part of the How Housing Matters to Families and Communities competitive grant program (over three years). (2009)

Urban Institute (Washington, D.C.)
$300,000 to support a rapid response research mechanism to educate and inform federal strategies about urgent housing and urban policy issues (over 16 months). (2009)

Yeshiva University Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Bronx, New York)
$750,000 to support research on the intersection between subsidized housing and health outcomes of Latino youth, as part of the How Housing Matters to Families and Communities competitive grant program (over three years). (2009)

Public Housing

Number of Grants: 7

Business and Professional People for the Public Interest (Chicago, Illinois)
$400,000 to support monitoring, technical assistance and an advisory role in the Plan for Transformation of public housing (over two years). (2010)

Central Advisory Council (Chicago, Illinois)
$200,000 to document the role of resident engagement in the Plan for Transformation. (2009)

Chicago Community Foundation (Chicago, Illinois)
$500,000 in support of general operations for the Partnership for New Communities (over two years). (2010)

Community Builders (Boston, Massachusetts)
$250,000 in support of the Community Life Program at Oakwood Shores mixed-income community in Chicago. (2011)

Community Renewal Society Chicago Reporter (Chicago, Illinois)
$300,000 in support of "The Chicago Reporter's" coverage of the Plan for Transformation of public housing and organizational improvement (over two years). (2010)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Urban Studies and Planning (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
$25,000 to support a public housing research workshop on the Chicago Housing Authority's Plan for Transformation. (2009)

Urban Institute (Washington, D.C.)
$500,000 to support a final round of surveys that focus on the lives of the families affected by the Chicago Housing Authority's Plan for Transformation (over two years). (2010)