Portfolio Partner Profile
Housing Partnership Network
Housing Partnership Network is an award-winning business collaborative of the nation’s leading housing and community development nonprofits, with a mission to build affordable homes, better futures, and vibrant communities for low- and moderate-income people. HPN brings together a national network of high-capacity owners, managers and operators that have collectively developed, rehabilitated or preserved nearly 350,000 affordable homes. To increase the scale and impact of its mission work, HPN and members collaborate to develop and launch innovative social enterprises.
HPN also works with its nonprofit members to form programs that benefit the communities they serve; these include an online homebuyer education tool that is expanding access to knowledge about the process of buying and owning a home; a charter school financing partnership that fosters strong, resilient schools in disadvantaged communities; and an innovative real estate development partnership that is revitalizing neighborhoods in post-Katrina New Orleans.
Since HPN’s launch in 1992, it has provided over $100 million of community investment. These funds have been used to develop or preserve nearly 374,000 affordable homes that provide more than 600,000 low-income people with quality housing and to counsel 750,000 families about sustainable homeownership. In addition, HPN has financed 538,000 single- and multi-family homes, 728,000 charter school and daycare seats, and numerous community health centers serving 2.3 million people annually. Overall, HPN’s work has benefitted almost 10 million people through housing, community facilities, and services in all 50 states.
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Impact Story
Housing US veterans
In its mission to end veteran homelessness, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has found a vital ally in the Housing Partnership Network. In 2010, VA started a five-year initiative to address the staggering numbers of those formerly in the armed forces left without a roof. The government organization approached the Housing Partnership Network to see if its members could help find affordable residences for unhoused veterans. Several HPN members took a pledge to provide housing for homeless veterans and are well under way in their efforts to curb the epidemic.
One such HPN member is REACH Community Development Inc., an affordable housing provider based in the Portland, Oregon metropolitan area. REACH CEO Dan Valliere said the group is in discussions with the local housing authority to prioritize new openings to veterans with HUD-VASH supportive housing vouchers. His goal is to make more units available to former servicemen and women in the expensive Portland rental market. "We're trying to see how we can be part of the solution," he said. REACH owns and operates Gray's Landing, a streetcar-accessible building in downtown Portland where about 20 percent of the units--42 apartments--are set aside for formerly homeless Veterans referred by VA. There, a VA case manager is on site for 20 hours each week to assist Veterans with financial or life challenges and to help them stay connected to the community.