Homeownership: Encouraging New Construction
Recognizes programs that best encourage the new construction of affordable ownership housing.
Judging Criteria
Homeownership entries will be judged on the degree to which they:
- Are innovative
- Are replicable
- Respond to an important state housing need
- Use data, research, and analysis to demonstrate measurable benefits to HFA targeted customers and underserved markets
- Have a proven track record of success in the marketplace
- Provide benefits that outweigh costs
- Demonstrate effective use of resources
- Effectively employ partnerships
- Achieve strategic objectives
If you have questions, please email awards@ncsha.org or call 202-624-7710.
2021 Winner
Michigan State Housing Development Authority
2021 Entries
Michigan State Housing Development Authority:
MSHDA Mod “Real Houses in Real Time”
MSHDA offered a pilot program to both rural and urban communities to develop affordable workforce housing using modular construction. Over the last two years, ten communities have completed and sold, or are near completion, a modular build nestled within a neighborhood of stick-built homes. Take a look at our program structure and photos of these successful homes.
Minnesota Housing:
Habitat For Humanity
While many housing finance agencies (HFAs) have helped Habitat for Humanity in their states on a financial level, Minnesota Housing has worked closely with Habitat for Humanity of Minnesota to identify specific areas of need unique to their program, making resources available in ways that were successful for the borrower, Minnesota Housing and Habitat for Humanity. As a result, our support has been more comprehensive and on a much larger scale.
