New Updates on The Edge

PD&R’s online magazine, The Edge, provides you with a snapshot view of our newly released research, periodicals, publications, news, and commentaries on housing and urban development issues. Stay informed on current topics and check back frequently, as our content is routinely updated.

Featured: Using Healthcare Payors To Fill the Affordable Housing Gap

In October 2021, Enterprise Community Partners hosted a virtual event titled "Filling the Capital Stack: How Health Care Payors Can Help Fill the Affordable Housing Gap." Panelists discussed the phenomena of healthcare payors — hospitals, Medicaid managed care organizations, and health insurance companies — financing affordable housing developments. The assembled speakers discussed the 76-unit senior living community, the Pearl, in Jackson, Mississippi, as an example of this financing model.

Message from PD&R Leadership: Addressing the Eviction Crisis

In the leadership message, PD&R’s director of the Office of Policy Development Jennifer C. Turnham discusses the COVID-19 induced eviction crisis and the measures that PD&R is taking to respond. Turnham describes newly announced grants to provide legal assistance to tenants at risk of eviction, a November 2021 HUD report to Congress exploring the feasibility of a national eviction database, and new data on housing insecurity added to PD&R’s National Housing Market Indicators report.

In Practice: Permanent Supportive Housing Created Within 3 Months of Extended Stay Hotel Acquisition

Casa de Esperanza is a permanent supportive housing development with 119 efficiency units in Fort Worth, Texas. The development, which was previously a Home Towne Suites extended stay hotel, was converted to affordable housing in just 12 weeks using $9.25 million in Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act funds. Casa de Esperanza serves the formerly homeless and those at risk of becoming severely ill from the novel coronavirus.

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