A collection of ten photo-illustrated stories demonstrating how Enterprise Community Partners has had a positive impact on some of America’s most vulnerable communities through housing deign, community development, and more.

Over the last 20 years, the Enterprise Rose Fellowsa program of Enterprise Community Partnershave gained a deep understanding of the conditions that cause housing insecurity, poverty, and injustice by embedding themselves in the communities where they work.

By using proven design processes, artistic practices, and community engagement principles, and committing to long-term collaborations with residents, they have drastically improved the quality of life in vulnerable communities. Simply put, they have changed lives.

This collection of stories and intimate documentary photographs delivers lessons in how we can work together to improve the lives of our neighbors. On the US-Mexico border, in farm country, in Rust Belt cities, and in pockets of blight and abandonment, the examples show that architecture is about human relationships and shared ambitions, and how buildings can support and embody them.By Katie Swenson and Photographs by Harry ConnollyKatie Swenson isa nationally recognized design leader, researcher, writer, and educator.Katie was formerly vice president of design & sustainability at Enterprise Community Partners, a national nonprofitthat invests over $1 billion annually in community development.
Harry Connolly is a photographer whose work takes him across the USA and occasionally overseas. He is the author of Fighting Chance: Journeys through Childhood Cancer, 19931998and Heading Home: Growing Up in Baseball.150 color imagesAt Home in America150 color images