Grant Winners

Out of 900 impressive proposals, six organizations received $2.5 million for their breakthrough ideas.

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These six winning housing solutions encompass a breadth of innovation across rural homeownership, forest stewardship, equitable underwriting, community health, the sharing economy, and trauma-informed care.

Meet the Winners

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Housing Construction 

cdcb | come dream. come build.

MiCASiTA

Scaling an environmentally sustainable, disaster-resilient modular homeownership innovation offering choice and agency to rural families across the Rio Grande Valley and beyond to empower more communities where poverty persists. cdcb | come dream. come build. has served South Texas since 1974.  

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Forterra

Forest to Home

Re-engineering the affordable housing supply chain through cross-laminated timber – beautiful, highly modular building material that can create rural jobs and mitigate the dangers of climate change if harvested responsibly. Forterra is a Washington-based land trust that enhances, supports, and stewards the region’s most precious resources — its communities and its ecosystems.

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Housing Finance

Center for NYC Neighborhoods

Underwriting for Good

Expanding homeownership by dramatically increasing the amount of credit flowing to families of color with modest means through at-scale non-discriminatory lending and the creation of a new automated underwriting system. CNYCN promotes and protects affordable homeownership toward building strong, thriving communities.

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Gulf Coast Housing Partnership

Health + Housing

Aligning incentives to show health care insurers the value of investing in affordable housing, while ensuring residents’ access to community-based health care. Created in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, Gulf Coast Housing Partnership seeks to create vibrant, high-quality communities that are socially and economically integrated, affordable and sustainable.

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Resident Services and Support

Impact Justice

The Homecoming Project

Leveraging available living spaces to support people leaving prison and re-entering communities. Impact Justice is a national innovation and research center advancing new ideas and solutions for justice reform.

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Preservation of Affordable Housing

Designing Trauma-Resilient Communities

Reimagining affordable housing design and services through the lens of trauma-informed care and its core principles: safety, trust, choice, collaboration and empowerment. Preservation of Affordable Housing (POAH) is a nonprofit developer, owner, and operator of affordable homes, working to help residents achieve their goals.

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More About the Challenge

The challenge is elevating vitally needed scalable and effective housing affordability innovations.
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