Public Policy

The Community Builders, Inc. is recognized as an industry leader in affordable housing development and comprehensive neighborhood revitalization. Our position offers us a voice in national policy discussions around urban revitalization, housing program design and development, housing finance and tax matters, and housing-based resident service delivery.

We maintain an office in Washington, DC to engage public policy issues that support our business development efforts and affordable housing more generally. We regularly participate in forums, policy discussions, and industry groups to advance specific issues.

Currently, with industry colleagues we are supporting Administration and Hill efforts to design new strategies for Choice Neighborhoods, Sustainable Communities, and the Transformation of Rental Assistance, along with continuing efforts to advance HOPE VI, Mixed Finance and other initiatives supporting the redevelopment of the public housing inventory. We also continue to actively support policy and program initiatives to preserve the affordable housing stock.

The Community Builders, Inc. is especially engaged in confronting our nation’s foreclosure crisis, having been awarded a major HUD Neighborhood Stabilization grant to redevelop foreclosed and abandoned multifamily housing in targeted neighborhoods.

We routinely offer comments on current policy and program development matters and have authored a number of practice-oriented articles for journals and other forums related to our housing and community development activities. Our latest comments and articles are available below.

Comment: HUD-Treasury Request—Reform of the Housing Finance System 7.21.10
Comment: HUD Request—Sustainable Communities Planning Grant Program 3.12.10
Comment: HUD Request—Proposed Choice Neighborhoods Initiative 11.23.09
Comment: DoE Request—Weatherization Assistance Program 7.06.09
Comment: HUD Request—FHA Mortgages Involving LIHTCS or TE Bonds 6.29.09
Comment: Treasury Request—Capital Magnet Fund Program 5.05.09
HOPE VI: A Vital Tool for Comprehensive Neighborhood Revitalization (Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy)
Managing Change (Journal of Housing and Community Development)
Comment on “Is Mixed-Income Development an Antidote to Urban Poverty?” (Volume 17 of the Fannie Mae Foundation’s Housing Policy Debate)
Practitioner's Guide to Resident Success in Economically Integrated, Socially Diverse Housing
Testimony before the House Government Reform Subcommittee on Federalism and the Census, on “Public Housing in the Competitive Market Place: Do Affordable and Public Housing Developments Benefit from Private Market and Other Financing Tools?”

For further information on our policy activities, please contact our Washington, DC office:

The Community Builders, Inc.
1333 H Street NW
Suite 1100 West
Washington, DC 20005
Phone: 202-955-1310