How We Work

We catalyze innovative, market-level change in order to scale community impact and build more stable homes in America.

The housing market is a big place and making a positive impact requires focus. We approach the housing industry through our unique lens as 100 of the leading regional nonprofit affordable housing developers. Together, we identify gaps, define opportunities and create solutions.

As individual organizations, HPN members change communities and people’s lives for the better. As a network, we change the larger market systems and value chains in which we operate in order to be more efficient, more sustainable and better positioned to achieve scaled impact.

HPN social enterprises have four dimensions or levels of impact. Although each venture we pursue may affect them in varying degrees, it is the ability of our enterprises to touch all four levels that give them their catalytic and exponential impact. 

Your organization’s involvement can take many unique forms and impact different enterprises. This partnership will align with your priorities and the HPN mission to accelerate innovation in housing and community development. A select group of 100 nonprofits, HPN members are high-performing, high-capacity developers, owners, and CDFIs that are leaders in community development. The focus of our leaders is using housing as a driver of outcomes across a number of key areas such as education, economic development, transportation, and health.