Industry Associations

Enterprise Foundation
The Enterprise Foundation helps America's low-income families with their struggle out of poverty by providing decent homes, access to steady employment, quality child care and safer streets. Working with a network of 2,500 community organizations nationwide and through its 15 local offices, The Enterprise Foundation has leveraged close to $5 billion in investments and donations to help build almost 160,000 affordable homes and help nearly 40,000 hard-to-employ people find jobs since 1982.
Location: Washington, D.C.
Contact: mail@enterprisefoundation.org

Homeownership Alliance of Nonprofit Downpayment Providers
HAND is an association whose members are nonprofit charities that make it possible for low- and moderate-income Americans to realize the dream of homeownership.
Location: Washington, D.C.
Contact: info@downpaymentalliance.org

Local Initiatives Support Corporation
Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) was founded in 1980 and is the nation's largest community building organization. LISC's mission is to rebuild whole communities by supporting Community Development Corporations (CDCs). LISC believes that these resident led, locally based organizations reflect most clearly the needs and priorities of neighborhoods as they rebuild themselves into healthy, thriving communities.
Location: New York, N.Y.
Contact: General Contact Information

Mortgage Bankers Association of America
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) is the national association representing the real estate finance industry, an industry that employs more than 400,000 people in virtually every community in the country. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., the association works to ensure the continued strength of the nation’s residential and commercial real estate markets; to expand homeownership prospects through increased affordability; and to extend access to affordable housing to all Americans. MBA promotes fair and ethical lending practices and fosters excellence and technical know-how among real estate finance professionals through a wide range of educational programs and technical publications. Its membership of approximately 2,700 companies includes all elements of real estate finance: mortgage companies, mortgage brokers, commercial banks, thrifts, life insurance companies and others in the mortgage lending field.
Location: Washington, D.C.
Contact: communications@mbaa.org

National Association of Home Builders
The National Association of Home Builders is a Washington-based trade association representing more than 215,000 members involved in home building, remodeling, multifamily construction, property management, subcontracting, design, housing finance, building product manufacturing and other aspects of residential and light commercial construction. Known as "the voice of the housing industry," NAHB is affiliated with more than 800 state and local home builders associations around the country. NAHB's builder members will construct about 80 percent of the more than 1.77 million new housing units projected for 2004, making housing one of the largest engines of economic growth in the country.
Location: Washington, D.C.
Contact: General Contact Information

National Council of State Housing Agencies
NCSHA is a national, nonprofit organization created in 1970 that assists the housing agencies of the 50 states and the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands in advancing the interests of lower income and underserved people through the financing, development, and preservation of affordable housing. NCSHA represents these agencies in Washington before Congress, the Administration, the federal agencies concerned with housing, such as HUD and the Treasury, and other advocates for affordable housing.
Location: Washington, D.C.
Contact: Online Contact Form