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Trauma-Informed Housing
  • Trauma-Informed Housing
  • Why Is Trauma-Informed Housing Needed?
  • What Makes Housing Trauma Informed?
  • Development and Design Process
  • Property Management
  • Resident Services
  • What Organizations Are Adopting Trauma-Informed Housing Principles?
  • MASS Design Group
  • Shopworks
  • The Kelsey
  • WinnCompanies
  • Enterprise Community Development
  • How Can We Make Trauma-Informed Housing the Standard for Affordable Housing?
  • Acknowledgments, Errata, and Credits
  • Enterprise Community Development
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    Enterprise Community Development is a nonprofit that takes a resident-centered approach to developing, preserving, managing, and providing services for affordable housing communities. Based in the mid-Atlantic region, Enterprise Community Development is a division of the national nonprofit Enterprise Community Partners. Enterprise shared at the roundtable that in their work to support the affordable housing developers, they advocate for a healing-centered approach to community development. This approach in many ways overlaps with trauma-informed housing principles. As described by the practitioners who designed it, the framework advocates for affordable housing that “prioritizes people as much as buildings”; centers Blackness and liberation; promotes emotional, spiritual, relational and physical healing across generations from the impacts of racial oppression; and celebrates residents and communities and their assets. The authors of the framework recommend approaches that “acknowledge racialized power dynamics” and seek to build trust with and collaborate with residents using tools like participatory budgeting and design processes, community celebrations, and restorative practices. Much like POAH’s toolkit, this framework gives practitioners language and resources to support their work to transform power dynamics to empower residents and to promote the healing and well-being of communities.