Affordable Housing

Recent Grants

Affordable Housing Preservation
Housing Policy
Public Housing

Affordable Housing Preservation

Number of Grants: 59

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

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 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 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)

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)
$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 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.)
$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)

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

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)

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

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

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)

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: 32

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.)
$1,000,000 to research housing strategies that benefit working families (over four years). (2009)

Columbia University Department of Economics (New York, New York)
$427,000 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)

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)
$1,000,000 in support of research on rental housing trends and issues (over three years). (2007)

Howard University School of Social Work (Washington, D.C.)
$390,000 to assess adolescents' emotional well-being following foreclosure, as part of the How Housing Matters to Families and Communities competitive grant program (over three years). (2009)

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)
$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)
$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 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)
$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)
$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)
$50,000 in support of the Moving-to-Opportunity program (over two years). (2008)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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 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 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 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)

University of Wisconsin â?? 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.)
$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)

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)

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: 19

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)

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)
$1,000,000 in support of general operations and a pilot program to stimulate sales of market-rate housing under the Plan for Transformation for the Partnership for New Communities. (2008)

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

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

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)

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)

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)

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

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)