Enterprise released An Investment in Opportunity, a long-term platform that lays out the federal, state and local policy changes necessary to address America’s growing rental housing crisis and create communities of opportunity across the U.S. It includes input from thought leaders and partners across the country.

The platform offers a bold new vision for housing policy, with 23 discrete policy recommendations built around four strategies for reform:

  1. Ensure broad access to high-opportunity neighborhoods
  2. Promote comprehensive public and private investments in low-income neighborhoods
  3. Recalibrate our priorities in housing policy and target scarce subsidy dollars where they’re needed most
  4. Improve the overall financial stability of low-income households

Enterprise created multiple ways to explore the policy recommendations and learn more about the platform:

This platform arrives at a crucial moment. Today more than one in four families who rent their homes – an unprecedented 11.4 million renter households in total – are “housing insecure,” meaning they pay more than half of their monthly income on housing. Absent meaningful policy changes, this problem will only get worse in the years to come.