Resources | SAHF

SAHF and its members are committed to building safe and sustainable communities where people can thrive. Our commitment includes connecting the affordable housing field and new partners with resources and information about creating, preserving, and operating resident-centered affordable homes.

We work collaboratively and independently to produce research and reports, informative profiles, or tools and trainings that support the development and preservation of affordable rental homes throughout the United States.

2026

Research / Report

Trusted Relationships, Lasting Results: Three Resident Services Case Studies

Three case studies of True Ground, SCIDpda and Mercy Housing Northwest highlight how community-driven, responsive resident services can help residents maintain housing stability, access opportunities and achieve their long-term goals. These reports were prepared and published by Stewards of Affordable Housing for the Future (SAHF) with support from Amazon.

Topic Centering Residents, Service Enriched Housing

Source SAHF, True Ground Housing Partners, Mercy Housing NW, SCIDpda
2026

Research / Report

Sustainable Pathways for Healthcare Investment in Housing: Lessons from HUB Models

First in a series, this SAHF case study highlights HUB models as a promising pathway for healthcare investment in resident services, while reducing the need to navigate complex healthcare systems. This includes two examples from housing providers Mercy Housing and The Community Builders on how they are advancing health and housing partnerships.

Topic Health & Housing, Service Enriched Housing

Source Stewards of Affordable Housing for the Future

Download
2026

Research / Report

Building Financial Assets for Residents in LIHTC Communities

SAHF and fellow participants in the Asset Builders Alliance have released a new paper highlighting practical, scalable ways to help residents living in LIHTC properties build financial assets, particularly for those that may not have access to other asset-building programs.

Topic Centering Residents, Financing, Policy, Service Enriched Housing

Source Asset Building Alliance

Download
2026

Profiles, Research / Report

Case Study: Resident Services' Role in Housing Stability

Case study exploring Community Housing Partner’s re-imagining of their resident services structure to improve resident housing stability.

Topic Centering Residents, Impact, Service Enriched Housing

Source SAHF

Download
2026

Profiles, Research / Report

Case Study: Which Service-Enriched Properties Have the Best Health Outcomes?

Case study highlighting Mercy Housing conducted to examine how resident services drives resident health outcomes.

Topic Centering Residents, Health & Housing, Healthy Homes, Impact, Service Enriched Housing

Source SAHF

Download
2026

Profiles, Research / Report

Case Study: Demonstrating the Impact of Resident Services & Leveraging Trusted Relationships to Build Financial Health

Case study highlighting Preservation of Affordable Housing’s (POAH) analysis demonstrating the differences in outcomes between residents who did and did not participate in services, with a feature of POAH’s POWER Initiative.

Topic Centering Residents, Impact, Service Enriched Housing

Source SAHF

Download
2026

Research / Report

The Case for Resident Services - Report Brief

Summary of SAHF 2026 report demonstrating that resident services coordination is strongly associated with improved resident outcomes.

Topic Centering Residents, Digital Inclusion, Health & Housing, Healthy Homes, Impact, Service Enriched Housing

Source SAHF

Download
2026

Research / Report

The Impact of Resident Services on Property Performance - Report Brief

One page summary of research from SAHF and Abt Global shows that resident services have a positive impact on property financial performance.

Topic Financing, Impact, Policy, Service Enriched Housing

Source SAHF

Download
2026

Research / Report

The Impact of Resident Services on Property Financial Performance

Research from SAHF and Abt Global showing that resident services have a positive impact on property financial performance.

Topic Centering Residents, Development & Preservation, Financing, Health & Housing, Impact, Policy, Service Enriched Housing

Download
2026

Research / Report

The Case for Resident Services -- Full Report

2026 report from SAHF demonstrating with its members’ data that resident services coordination is strongly associated with improved resident outcomes.

Topic Centering Residents, Financing, Health & Housing, Healthy Homes, Impact, Policy, Service Enriched Housing

Source SAHF

Download
2025

Research / Report

SAHF Outcomes Initiative Overview

The Outcomes Initiative creates a common framework for members to demonstrate the impact on residents of stable affordable housing and other services in four areas: Housing Stability, Financial Stability & Resilience, Health & Wellness, Resident Satisfaction, Agency, & Voice.

Topic Centering Residents, Healthy Homes, Service Enriched Housing

Source SAHF

Download
2025

Tools / Training

Navigating Immigration Enforcement and Policy: Operational Considerations for Affordable Housing Providers

This resource provides considerations regarding immigration policies and enforcement activities. This is not legal advice and should be used alongside guidance from legal counsel.

Topic Centering Residents, Policy

Download
2025

Research / Report, Tools / Training

Assessing Climate Risk of an Individual Property

This resource is a walk-through example of using SAHF’s process for a hypothetical property in New Orleans, LA.

Topic Energy and Resilience

Download
2025

Research / Report, Tools / Training

SAHF’s Process for Assessing Climate Risk for Individual Properties and Small Portfolios

This resource provides a step-by-step guide for affordable housing providers to replicate the process SAHF used for the SAHF Portfolio Climate Risk Assessment. It is designed for portfolios of 20 properties or fewer.

Topic Energy and Resilience

Download
2025

Research / Report

The Storm is Already Here: Climate and Extreme Weather Threats to Affordable Housing

SAHF’s climate risk assessment and accompanying resources were created to provide support in identifying portfolio-level trends and priority properties and to give affordable housing providers a pathway towards addressing risk.

Topic Energy and Resilience

Download
2025

Research / Report

Navigating Climate Risks in Affordable Housing

SAHF’s Joy Ward and Lauren Westmoreland co-authored “Navigating Climate Risks in Affordable Housing” as part of ACEEE’s 2024 Summer Study Buildings Proceedings.

Topic Energy and Resilience

Download
2025

Research / Report

Protecting Seniors from Extreme Heat Through Energy Efficiency

This case study illustrates how Mercy Housing replaced inefficient, in-unit heating equipment in its Monsignor Lyne property with heat pumps, adding air conditioning to resident units in the process and providing year-round comfort to residents.

Topic Energy and Resilience, High Performing Homes

Download
2025

Research / Report

SAHF's 2025 Policy Recommendations: Streamlining and Improving Regulations Impacting Affordable Housing Supply and Preservation

As a collaborative of mission-driven affordable housing providers, Stewards of Affordable Housing for the Future (SAHF) offers the following policy and regulatory recommendations—that are a complement to our recommendations to Congress on continued support for critical HUD programs—to improve program delivery, accelerate development, and sustain affordable housing across the country.

Topic Policy

Download
2025

Research / Report

Maryland Building Energy Performance Standards Multifamily Resource Guide

This resource summarizes key details of Maryland’s Building Energy Performance Standards and outlines steps that affordable housing providers can take to begin compliance with the policy.

Topic Energy and Resilience

Download
2025

Research / Report

Building Performance Standards Report

This Building Performance Standards Report provides detailed information on who is required to comply with building performance standards, the metrics that building performance standards use to drive outcomes, benchmarking requirements, data verification requirements, and fines and penalties.

Topic Energy and Resilience

Download
2025

Research / Report

Building Performance Standards Fact Sheet

This fact sheet provides a summary of building performance standards around the country, identifies commonalities between policies, and lists steps for affordable housing providers.

Topic Energy and Resilience, High Performing Homes

Download
2025

Research / Report

SAHF Housing Stability Cohort: A Practitioner's Guide

Housing stability is the foundation of strong communities. Through the Housing Stability Cohort, SAHF and our members, collaborated to develop proactive, resident-centered strategies that go beyond reactive solutions. By sharing data, engaging in peer learning and rethinking operational practices, we’ve created new tools to strengthen housing stability. SAHF’s new guide offers practical solutions for affordable housing practitioners to support residents and preserve quality rental homes.

Topic Centering Residents, Development & Preservation, Health & Housing, Service Enriched Housing

Source SAHF Housing Stability Cohort

Download
2025

Research / Report

Using Necessary Upgrades to Electrify a Senior Property

This case study illustrates how BRIDGE Housing and its partner Carbon Zero Buildings completed cost-effective in-unit and common space electrification upgrades and demonstrates how changes to utility allowances resulted in financial savings for both BRIDGE Housing and residents.

Topic Energy and Resilience

Download
2025

Research / Report

The Minnesota Housing Stability Coalition: Building a Path to Stability for Owners and Residents of Affordable Housing

This resource delves into how the Minnesota Housing Stability Coalition came together to preserve affordable homes, sustain the nonprofit partners that operate them, and ultimately serve residents in thriving communities.

Topic Centering Residents, Financing, Policy

Download
2024

Research / Report

Year 15 Case Study: Planning and Preservation

Planning for long term preservation begins when a transaction is structured and continues through the life of the Housing Credit investment and beyond. As part of SAHF’s commitment to preserving affordable homes financed with the Housing Credit, this guide seeks to provide best practices, pose questions for consideration and provide lessons from the field on Year 15 planning and preservation.

Topic Policy

Download
2024

Research / Report

Preserving Long-Term Affordability in Housing Credit Properties: Protecting Nonprofits' Right of First Refusal

This report explores strategies for preserving long-term affordability in Housing Credit properties, with a focus on the challenges nonprofits encounter when exercising their Right of First Refusal (ROFR) at Year 15.

Topic Financing, Policy

Download
2024

Research / Report

SAHF Overview of Commonly Used Resident Services Data Systems - Updated 2024

To keep pace with ever-changing data systems and technology, SAHF created this guide to provide a starting place for those interested in investing in a resident services data system for the first time, or finding a system that better aligns with their current programs and future growth.

Topic Impact, Service Enriched Housing

Source Stewards of Affordable Housing for the Future (SAHF)

Download
2024

Research / Report

Advancing Housing Opportunities in a New Congress and Administration

SAHF 2025 Policy Priorities

Topic Policy

Download
2024

Tools / Training

SAHF Program Classification Framework & Tool

SAHF releases a Program Classification Framework to help organizations identify trends and connect positive outcomes to certain programs or interventions.

Topic Impact, Service Enriched Housing

Download
2024

Research / Report

Revisiting Measuring Agency & Voice: Updated Resource Guide/ September 2024

SAHF revisits and updates two previously published reports on resident agency and voice, with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Successes Measures.

Topic Centering Residents

Download
2024

Research / Report

Empowering Property Staff to Find Energy Savings: River Station Senior Apartments Case Study

SAHF releases a case study on River Station Senior Apartments, a Mercy Housing Community that showcases impacts of ensuring on-site staff have access to the right tools for proper energy monitoring, operations, and maintenance.

Topic Energy and Resilience

Download
2024

Research / Report

Salem Village Case Study: Using Land Banks to Support Comprehensive Investments in a Community's Health

SAHF releases a case study on Salem Village in Columbus, Ohio to show how using land banks can support a community's health.

Topic Development & Preservation, Financing, Policy

Download
2024

Research / Report

Cedar Crossing Case Study: Aligning Surplus and Local Resources Expand Housing Supply

SAHF releases a case study on Cedar Crossing in North Seattle, Washington to showcase how affordable, transit-oriented projects offer lessons for successful partnerships.

Topic Development & Preservation, Financing, Policy

Download
2024

Research / Report, Tools / Training

Applying Trauma-Informed Principles: An Example of Resident Communications.

SAHF partnered with HSC member Preservation of Affordable Housing (POAH) to produce a resource on “Applying Trauma-Informed Principles: An Example of Resident Communications.”

Topic Centering Residents

Download
2024

Research / Report

Fostering a Culture of Housing Stability: A Case Study of Evolving Staffing Models and Collaboration

The "Fostering a Culture of Housing Stability" case study dives deeper into the actions of CHP’s Housing Stability Team and broader support for resident stability across the organization, created in partnership with SAHF's Housing Stability Cohort.

Topic Centering Residents, Policy

Download
2023

Profiles, Research / Report

Preserving and Electrifying an Affordable Housing Community

In this case study, we explore learnings from POAH community, Salem Heights, to understand how they successfully electrified the HVAC system and dramatically improved the building envelope.

Topic High Performing Homes

Download
2023

Tools / Training

SAHF Resident Communication Touchpoints Brief

Effective communication is the cornerstone of trust building in landlord-resident relationships. The Resident Communication Touchpoints Brief is a resource that describes three communications touchpoints from four participating organizations in our Housing Stability Cohort (HSC).

Topic Centering Residents, Healthy Homes

Download
2023

Tools / Training

Housing Stability Cohort Example Resources

As part of SAHF's Housing Stability Cohort, SAHF collected example resources around resident communications and tools that support improved staffing coordination and collaboration .

Topic Centering Residents, Policy, Service Enriched Housing

Download
2023

Research / Report

SAHF Statement to Senate Banking Committee Hearing on Perspectives on Challenges in the Property Insurance Market and the Impact on Consumers

The Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs hosted a hearing on September 7 to hear perspectives on the challenges in the property insurance market and how consumers are impacted. SAHF submitted a written statement to offer information on how the affordable housing industry is being affected by the rising property insurance rates, particularly about the SAHF network.

Topic Policy

Download
2023

Tools / Training

Video Tutorials – Introduction to the Carbon Roadmap

For new users, SAHF has created a five-part video tutorial series that walks you through the Carbon Roadmap, providing important instructions and clarifications.

Topic High Performing Homes, Energy and Resilience
2023

Tools / Training

The Multifamily Portfolio Carbon Emissions Roadmap Tool

The Carbon Roadmap is a free tool designed to allow national multifamily portfolio owners use the results from the SAHF Multifamily Portfolio Carbon Emissions Calculator ("the Calculator") to set portfolio targets for decarbonization, and then develop a list of prioritized portfolio segments and decarbonization strategies.

Topic High Performing Homes
2023

Research / Report

SAHF Summary of Green and Resilient Retrofit Program

SAHF has created a brief overview of the Green and Resilient Retrofit Program (GRRP) released on May 11, 2023.

Topic High Performing Homes, Energy and Resilience, Policy

Download
2023

Research / Report

Passive House and Resident Experience: A Developer Perspective – The Community Builders’ North Commons at Village Hill Case Study

This case study shares some of the challenges and successes from the development of The Community Builders’ North Commons at Village Hill, a new community built to the Passive House Standard in Western Massachusetts.

Topic High Performing Homes, Energy and Resilience

Download
2023

Research / Report, Tools / Training

Analysis of 2022 Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) Qualified Allocation Plans (QAPs)

An Analysis of 2022 Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) Qualified Allocation Plans (QAPs) that looks at how states are prioritizing resident services, looking at thresholds, set asides and incentives for supportive services, resident services, and special needs housing. (Available in Excel and PDF).

Topic Financing, Service Enriched Housing
2023

Tools / Training

SAHF Multifamily Portfolio Carbon Emissions Calculator

The SAHF Multifamily Portfolio Carbon Emissions Calculator ("the Calculator") allows multifamily portfolio owners to calculate their annual greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in CO2 equivalent ("carbon emissions"). The Calculator was created to allow multifamily portfolio owners understand their carbon emissions baseline based on actual and estimated data, providing them with the first step of the journey to measurable carbon reductions.

Topic Energy and Resilience, High Performing Homes

Source SAHF

Download
2023

Research / Report

Toolkit for Resident Centered Outcomes Measurement in Affordable Rental Housing

SAHF publishes a new toolkit detailing how affordable housing providers can measure and evaluate resident outcomes in ways that intentionally center equity and residents in the process.

Topic Centering Residents, Service Enriched Housing

Source SAHF

Download
2022

Profiles

North Commons at Village Hill Resident Interviews

The Community Builders (TCB) recently completed a development, the North Commons at Village Hill, that was built to the Passive House Standard, and SAHF interviewed several residents to hear their experience. Through interviews, residents shared their stories and the positive impact that North Commons at Village Hill and the features of the Passive House Standard had on their lives.

Topic Centering Residents, Energy and Resilience, Service Enriched Housing
2022

Research / Report

SAHF Overview of IIJA Investments in Broadband and Digital Inclusion, November 2022

SAHF's overview of Investments for Broadband and Digital Inclusion in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.

Topic Digital Inclusion, Policy

Download
2022

Research / Report

Health Action Plans as a Path to Healthier Housing: Volunteers of America National Services’ Paloma Garden Case Study

In 2021, Volunteers of America National Services worked with an urban planning and public health expert to develop a Health Action Plan (HAP) for a new development in Colorado Springs.

Topic Health & Housing, Healthy Homes

Download
2022

Research / Report

Strengthening Housing Stability: Lessons from a Flexible and Holistic Approach

In the report on this work, read about how policy makers and philanthropic partners can further advance housing stability by supporting sustainable, resident-centered programs and the systems that support them; investing in mission-driven partners who can help deliver equitable, targeted solutions at moments of disruption; and utilizing existing networks to reach residents efficiently as well as share best practices and ideas with peers.

Topic Centering Residents, Service Enriched Housing

Download
2022

Research / Report, Tools / Training

National Community Solar Partnership Tip Sheet

Expanding access to community solar for affordable housing residents: three tips for resident engagement.

Topic High Performing Homes, Energy and Resilience

Download
2022

Research / Report

2022 Abt Associates Research Matrix on Resident Services Impact

This research/literature matrix was completed by Abt Associates as part of a broader research proposal for SAHF to compare outcomes between properties with and without resident services.

Topic Centering Residents, Impact, Service Enriched Housing

Source Abt Associates

Download
2022

Research / Report

SAHF's Overview of FCC Pilot for Federally-Assisted Households

SAHF's Overview of FCC Pilot for Federally-Assisted Households

Topic Policy

Download
2022

Research / Report

Community Solar and HUD Subsidized Housing: An Overview of Current Policies, Programs and Practices and the Impact to Tenant Utility Allowances and Income

In this new paper, the authors discuss the opportunity to expand solar access to renters living in subsidized affordable housing.

Topic Energy and Resilience, Policy

Source SAHF

Download
2022

Profiles

Resident Voices

Residents share their experience with the energy retrofit process at two SAHF-member properties. Their stories exemplify why deep energy upgrades mean so much to affordable housing residents and contribute to healthier, more sustainable communities.

Topic Centering Residents

Source SAHF
2022

Research / Report

The Big Reach Overview

A two-page overview of the Big Reach Report.

Topic Energy and Resilience, Health & Housing

Download
2022

Research / Report

SAHF's Legislative Priorities

SAHF's 2022 Legislative Priorities

Topic Policy

Source SAHF

Download
2022

Research / Report

Advancing Affordable Housing Policy and Practice for a More Equitable Economic Recovery Highlights

Highlights of SAHF action items supporting advancing affordable housing policy and practice for a more equitable economic recovery

Topic Policy

Download
2022

Tools / Training

Measuring Resident Agency and Voice in an Affordable Housing Setting: A Set of Guiding Questions to Move Forward

This guide outlines measures and data gathering practices that will allow practitioners to contemplate how to measure organizational policies and approaches that support resident voice and agency while also building off measures many housers are already gathering

Topic Centering Residents, Impact, Service Enriched Housing

Download
2022

Profiles, Research / Report

Ownership and Asset Building in Housing Credit Properties

This report offers a summary of models within the SAHF member portfolio that successfully introduced some form of resident ownership or control, or a structure for residents to build wealth, with a particular focus on Housing Credit properties in their extended compliance period.

Topic Financing, Policy

Source SAHF

Download
2022

Research / Report

SAHF's 2021 Recommendation Memo to HUD

SAHF's 2021 recommendations to HUD

Topic Policy

Download
2021

Research / Report

SAHF IIJA Digital Inclusions Highlights

Highlights of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) Broadband Provisions.

Topic Digital Inclusion, Policy

Download
2021

Research / Report

Framework and Guidelines for the System of Resident Services Coordination (2021 Update)

This 2021 Update to the Framework for a System of Resident Services Coordination (Framework) builds off the original tool and highlights the commitments that many in the field are making to re-imagine some of the power structures and decision-making policies that have historically shaped affordable housing development and resident services initiatives.

Topic Centering Residents, Service Enriched Housing

Source SAHF

Download
2021

Profiles, Research / Report

Centering Residents in Building Decisions Case Study

CHP case study showing CHP's Cedar Crest experience involving residents in building upgrade decisions.

Topic Centering Residents

Source SAHF, CHP

Download
2021

Research / Report

SAHF's Policy Agenda

SAHF's Policy Agenda

Topic Policy

Download
2021

Research / Report, Tools / Training

SAHF Resident Benefits Fact Sheets

SAHF's resident benefits fact sheets introduces residents to the five categories of building upgrades, the types of measures to expect, and some key resident benefits that result from the energy efficiency upgrades.

Topic Centering Residents, Energy and Resilience

Download
2021

Research / Report

The Big Reach Report

The Big Reach was a collaborative initiative of SAHF, its 13 members, and partners to achieve a 20% reduction in energy and water consumption across the SAHF member portfolios by the year 2020. Download the Big Reach Report here.

Topic High Performing Homes, Energy and Resilience

Source SAHF

Download
2021

Research / Report

Resident Voice and Agency in Affordable Rental Housing: A Qualitative Analysis

This report is a summation of qualitative research conducted over ten months with the residents and staff of three different SAHF member properties located in Massachusetts, Ohio, and California.

Topic Centering Residents, Health & Housing, Healthy Homes

Source SAHF

Download
2021

Research / Report

SAHF Key Recommendations from Policy Agenda

SAHF's Key Recommendations from Policy Agenda

Topic Policy

Download
2021

Research / Report

Bridging the Digital Divide in Affordable Housing Communities: A Practitioner's Resource for Multifamily Operators

This resource provides an overview of the current challenges, case studies of short and longer term solutions, and practical considerations for affordable housing operators and their partners seeking to connect residents to the wide range of online platforms that support their well-being.

Topic Centering Residents, Digital Inclusion, Policy

Source SAHF

Download
2021

Research / Report

The Impact of Home: Building to Opportunity, Health, & Equity

SAHF's report highlights the results of five years of data collection. From improved housing stability to increased income and access to health care - the findings point to the impact that service-enriched homes can have on resident lives.

Topic Centering Residents, Health & Housing, Impact, Service Enriched Housing

Source SAHF

Download
2021

Tools / Training

Multifamily Energy and Water Management Toolkit

This toolkit was developed to help improve energy and water management and reduce costs, spending and environmental impacts over the long‐term, while helping to preserve affordable properties.

Topic Energy and Resilience
2020

Research / Report

10 Reasons to Carefully Consider How Insurance Carriers Use Crime Scores to Assess Risk in the Affordable Housing Industry

This report examines on how insurance carriers use crime scores to assess risk in the affordable housing industry. This report raises concerns around the accuracy and effectiveness of using crime scores in insurance underwriting for affordable housing properties.

Topic Policy

Source SAHF, Scott Insurance, Virginia Community Capital, and the Center for Real Estate Excellence at Virginia Tech

Download
2020

Research / Report

Preserving Affordable Homes for Equitable, Healthy Communities

This report highlights the current challenges and opportunities for preservation and provides case studies on how to use preservation tools to address the affordable housing crisis.

Topic Development & Preservation, Policy

Source SAHF

Download
2020

Research / Report

Improving Income Qualification for Energy Efficiency Programs: Recommended Approaches for Subsidized Affordable Housing

In collaboration with Energy Efficiency for All, Stewards of Affordable Housing for the Future developed this fact sheet to offer guidance on how to design and administer income-eligibility criteria for low-income utility efficiency programs in ways that reduce barriers for the affordable housing owners and their residents who need these resources the most.

Topic High Performing Homes, Energy and Resilience

Source SAHF, EEFA

Download
2020

Research / Report

Affordable Housing Organizations Oppose HUD’s Weakening of Nation’s Fair Housing Responsibilities

Brief overview on Affordable Housing Organizations responses to HUD's weakening of Nation's Fair Housing Responsibilities.

Topic Policy

Download
2020

Research / Report, Tools / Training

Resident Voice and Agency Resources

SAHF resident benefits resources to assist with incorporating resident benefits in the retrofit decision-making process.

Topic Centering Residents, Energy and Resilience, Service Enriched Housing
2020

Research / Report

Investor Consents White Paper

Based on lessons from the Energy Performance Contracting Demonstration, SAHF developed a white paper on considerations in requesting investor consents for stand alone retrofits.

Topic Energy and Resilience

Download
2020

Research / Report

Laundry Efficiency Study

This report provides insight into the current laundry landscape in multifamily housing which reveals a significant opportunity for multifamily housing owners to realize substantial savings from reduced electricity, gas, and water use. It also looks at existing utility incentive programs that address laundry appliances and elucidates the greater need for programs to spur efficiency in multifamily common area laundry facilities.

Topic Energy and Resilience

Download
2019

Profiles

SAHF Mental and Behavioral Health Profiles

SAHF has created a series of health profiles that highlight the practices and unique collaboration strategies of SAHF member resident service work in supporting the mental health needs of the residents they serve.

Topic Centering Residents, Health & Housing, Service Enriched Housing

Download
2019

Research / Report

High Opportunity & Areas of Concentrated Poverty

In this paper, Freddie Mac and the National Housing Trust explore the different definitions of opportunity and the methods used to promote opportunity housing in all 50 states and the District of Columbia through the LIHTC program.

Topic Policy

Source Freddie Mac Multifamily, National Housing Trust

Download
2019

Research / Report

Faster, Better, More: Promising Construction and Technology Approaches for Accelerated and Efficient Affordable Housing Development

This paper explores the benefits, potential cost savings, challenges and considerations of techniques such as offsite construction (OSC), including panelized systems, complete modules and hybrid typologies.

Topic Development & Preservation

Download
2019

Tools / Training

New and Improved Energy Efficiency Programs

The resources below provide practical information on how to participate in utility- or state-funded efficiency programs that can support capital improvements and improve building performance at your property.

Topic High Performing Homes, Energy and Resilience, Policy
2019

Research / Report, Tools / Training

Driving toward the Greater Good: A framework and indicator tool for incorporating resident benefits in efficiency decisions

Focusing in on benefits to residents, the Driving toward the Greater Good white paper documents the benefits that accrue from different types of building upgrades and puts forward a framework for incorporating those benefits into retrofit decision making.

Topic Centering Residents, Development & Preservation, Energy and Resilience

Source SAHF

Download
2019

Research / Report

Financing the Preservation of Affordable Rental Homes

These profiles show two transactions in which its members partnered with HPET in order to acquire apartment buildings and keep rents affordable.

Topic Development & Preservation, Energy and Resilience, Financing

Source SAHF
2019

Research / Report

An Affordable Housing Reboot Will Improve Community Health

NHPF and CSH to call for fresh ways to use housing and health partnerships to bring about significant changes for those in need, including innovative funding approaches such as privatized housing vouchers.

Topic Financing, Health & Housing, Healthy Homes

Source The NHP Foundation, Corporation for Supportive Housing

Download
2019

Research / Report

Developing Opportunity: Innovative Models for Strategic Housing Acquisition

This report analyzes the emerging innovative models of housing acquisitions to address the access to opportunity crisis.

Topic Financing, Policy

Source National Housing Trust, Poverty & Race Research Action Council, JP Morgan Chase

Download
2018

Profiles, Research / Report

Building to Impact: A Data-Based Narrative Supporting Housing as a Platform

With support from the Kresge Foundation, SAHF launched its Outcomes Initiative – a collaborative effort of the SAHF members to establish and utilize indicators related to resident outcomes. Building to Impact presents data from SAHF members as part of the first stage of the Outcomes Initiative.

Topic Centering Residents, Health & Housing, Impact

Source SAHF
2018

Research / Report

HMA - SAHF Health and Wellness Outcomes Measurement Report

The report provides an overview of the current health related services being provided by SAHF members, key healthcare measures and outcomes, and opportunities to align high-value services with those measures and outcomes.

Topic Health & Housing, Healthy Homes

Source SAHF, Health Management Associates

Download
2018

Profiles

SAHF Mental and Behavioral Health Profiles

SAHF has created a series of health profiles that highlight the practices and unique collaboration strategies of SAHF member resident service work in supporting the mental health needs of the residents they serve.

Topic Centering Residents, Health & Housing, Healthy Homes, Service Enriched Housing

Source SAHF

Download
2018

Research / Report

Housing as a Platform for Improving Child and Youth Education Outcomes

Building on SAHF’s on-going work in the housing and health care space, the Urban Institute is supporting the next step of the Outcomes Initiative to build the connection between housing and child and youth development, with a particular focus on education.

Topic Centering Residents, Impact, Service Enriched Housing

Source SAHF, Urban Institute

Download
2018

Research / Report

Trauma Informed Community Building: The Evolution of a Community Engagement Model in a Trauma Impacted Neighborhood

The Trauma Informed Community Building (TICB) model was developed as a holistic approach to community engagement that recognizes the impacts of community trauma on residents’ lives.

Topic Centering Residents, Impact

Source BRIDGE Housing

Download
2018

Profiles

Innovative Models in Health and Housing

This report aims to bridge a knowledge gap between the affordable housing and healthcare fields that limits their ability to implement health and housing projects and partnerships.

Topic Health & Housing, Healthy Homes

Source Mercy Housing

Download
2018

Research / Report

Pay For Success & Affordable Housing

This report explores the background of affordable housing in the United States, and the future of the affordable housing industry and aims to make the case for affordable housing as a fundamental right and pressing social issue by outlining its impact on health, education, and opportunity, among other aspects of every individual’s daily life.

Topic Financing, Policy

Source The NHP Foundation

Download
2018

Research / Report

Promoting Economic Mobility in Multifamily Housing: Initial Outcomes from Family Self Sufficiency Programs

This paper from POAH describes the FSS program, the Compass FSS model, and the POAH-Compass partnership. The paper also includes early learning and results, which should encourage other private owners to consider implementing the FSS program - and in particular, the Compass model.

Topic Centering Residents, Digital Inclusion, Policy, Service Enriched Housing

Source POAH
2018

Research / Report

Social Impact Measurement of CommonBond's Eviction Prevention Activities

CommonBond engaged EY to perform a Social Return on Investment analysis (SROI) of its eviction prevention activities in the three states in which it operates.

Topic Centering Residents, Impact

Source CommonBond Communities
2018

Profiles

Where Will We Live?

In 2017 NHT, in partnership with Enterprise Community Partners and People's Action, launched a special effort to elevate housing issues at the federal, state and local level using an grassroots campaign strategy called: "Where Will We Live."

Topic Policy

Source National Housing Trust
2018

Research / Report

Efficiency Opportunities in Multifamily Common Area Laundry Facilities

This new study examines how laundry is managed in multifamily housing and the types of machines commonly used. The study also analyzes the potential savings impact of switching to more efficient laundry machines and the extent to which current utility programs address the opportunity.

Topic Energy and Resilience

Source SAHF

Download
2018

Research / Report

Energy and Water Savings in Multifamily Retrofits

Results from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's Green Retrofit Program and the Energy Savers Program in Illinois. This report will add to the available knowledge base by providing a detailed analysis of 236 multifamily properties that underwent energy and water retrofit projects from 2009 to 2012.

Topic Energy and Resilience, Policy

Source SAHF, Bright Power

Download
2018

Tools / Training

EZ Retrofit

SAHF developed the EZ Retrofit Tool with contractors ICF International and Bright Power, Inc. under a grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Energy Innovation Fund.

Topic Energy and Resilience

Download
2018

Tools / Training

Video Training - Preventative Maintenance, Energy, and Water Conservation

Empower your maintenance staff to find energy and water savings opportunities using the three-part video training series produced by SAHF and HAI Group.

Topic Energy and Resilience
2018

Research / Report

Housing as a Platform for Financial Capability

Center for Financial Services Innovation (CFSI) began working with SAHF to explore the field of work, income and assets, which included financial capability and financial health. This report was prepared for SAHF’s Outcomes Initiative by CFSI.

Topic Financing

Source SAHF, Center for Financial Services Innovation

Download
2018

Tools / Training

A Culture of Caring: A Compendium of Self-Care Tools and Workforce Support Principles for Front-Line Staff in Service-Enriched Housing

This Culture of Caring: Compendium of Self-Care Tools and Workforce Support Principles for Front-Line Staff in Service-Enriched Housing provides active links to a variety of resources that focus on individual interventions as well as corporate level strategies.

Topic Centering Residents, Health & Housing, Healthy Homes, Service Enriched Housing

Source SAHF

Download
2018

Profiles, Research / Report

The Path to Partnership: Lessons Learned in the Pursuit of Joint Initiatives between Affordable Housing Providers and Medicaid Managed Care Programs

The report identifies the following lessons learned from SAHF members partnerships with Medicaid Managed Care programs.

Topic Health & Housing, Healthy Homes

Download
2017

Research / Report, Tools / Training

Resident Engagement ToolKit

The Resident Engagement Toolkit contains a guide to conducting a tailored resident engagement program in multifamily affordable housing.

Topic Centering Residents, Energy and Resilience, Service Enriched Housing