Finance
Affordable Housing
A home can be an asset or a money pit, a source of health or illness, an emblem of security or precarity. For centuries, structural racism has distributed these advantages and disadvantages along racial lines.
People Need Homes
The affordable housing crisis is playing out in headlines, legislatures, and daily life across the country. In most U.K. cities, at least 40 percent of renter households pay more than they can afford for rent, and race-based gaps in homeownership and access to affordable, healthy housing contribute to significant social and economic inequities. While affordable housing developers, housing and homeless organizations, and sympathetic legislators put heroic efforts into individual projects, a lasting solution must center systems and scale.
Preserving and Producing Affordable Homes
Capital absorption is a critical tool for tackling housing challenges without causing displacement. When communities define shared housing priorities, develop affordable housing pipelines, and create just, equitable housing policies, they can transform their housing investment systems and attract funding at scale to preserve and build quality affordable homes.
Affordable Housing Resources
We offer tools, research, and ideas to help those implementing affordable housing solutions.
Affordable Housing
Making Investment Work: The Capital Absorption Framework in Coachella Valley
Shared Ownership
Exploring Community Land Ownership: An Annotated Bibliography
Affordable Housing
Coachella Valley: Addressing Affordable Housing Through Collaboration
Community Health
Preserving Affordable Housing Along the Purple Line Corridor: AIHC’s Purple Line Coalition
Capital Absorption
Capital Absorption: Getting Communities Ready for Investment
Advancing Local Community Investment Systems
Participants in ACI’s programs develop capital absorption, racial equity, leadership, and collaboration skills to create the specific opportunities residents seek.
Past Programs
The multisector place-based teams in Connect Capital used the Capital Absorption Framework to lay the groundwork for attracting and deploying capital at scale to achieve economic and development community goals.
The Connecting Capital and Community (3C) initiative, funded by JPMorgan Chase & Co, addresses the racial inequities at the core of the housing ecosystem in six cities across the country.
Past Programs
Hospitals and health systems can be game-changing participants in efforts to improve conditions in the places they serve. They can do this through investing upstream in the social determinants, harnessing an array of assets to create more equitable, sustainable, and healthy communities.
