AHI's MEE RESEARCH REPORT
Mission Entrepreneurial Entities: Essential Actors in Affordable Housing Delivery
Raymond Christman, Atlanta, GA,
Gaynor Asquith, arc4, UK
David A. Smith, Affordable Housing Institute
Affordable Housing Institute, 2010,
11 in (279 mm) x 8.5 in (216 mm), 257 pages
Availble in print (paperback) or electronic(pdf) formats:
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AHI's landmark new study, Mission Entrepreneurial Entities: Essential Actors in Affordable Housing Delivery, examines the characteristics of MEEs, their role and importance in housing delivery, and their principles of success. Using extensive case analysis of US and UK MEEs, it develops a theory of what makes successful MEEs or puts this 'keystone species' at risk, in which environments MEEs can flourish, and where lie today's challenges and opportunities. These insights apply not just in the US and UK but around the world, including the Global South, and point the way for reordering resource priorities.
For more, see full Press Release here.
Extract of the MEE Report here.
"The Affordable Housing Institute has produced a long-awaited analysis. It tells how and why mission directed entrepreneurial entities focused on producing and preserving affordable homes in the USA and the UK are successful, and how lessons about their powerful progress can illuminate and energize further momentum toward more affordable homes for all.”
- Conrad Egan, President of the National Housing Conference.
"In its recent study, the Affordable Housing Institute shines an illuminating light on key - but often obscured - players in the affordable housing arena. It puts forward a new template for understanding how the motive of mission can intersect productively and effectively with market-driven entrepreneurial forces. The study does more than catalog this new species of affordable housing actors, it also clarifies their contribution and what they need to play an ever greater role in a global housing agenda of a decent, safe and affordable place to live for all.”
- Nicolas Retsinas, Director of Harvard's Joint Center for Housing Studies and a former HUD Assistant Secretary for Housing.
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