Public Assets Corporations Playbook

As the affordable housing crisis deepens, cities and states are rethinking the institutions built to solve it.

One of the clearest examples of this shift: public asset corporations. Cities like Atlanta, Chattanooga, and Cincinnati are standing up these entities, drawing on models proven in European cities, to put publicly owned land and buildings to work for housing production and preservation — backed by financing tools built for speed and scale.

As a founding partner of the National Housing Crisis Task Force, AFA is proud to help bring this work to more communities. This week, the Task Force released a new Public Asset Corporation Playbook, which defines this emerging institutional model, highlights early examples in action, and lays out a path for other cities to adopt and adapt it.