Turn Complex Data Into

Clear Policy & investment Decisions

WE DESIGN SMARTER STRATEGIES AND SOLUTIONS—GROUNDED IN DATA AND COMMUNITY INSIGHT.

Reinvestment Fund’s Policy Solutions team brings a stakeholder-driven, data-informed approach to partnerships with leaders across the civic sector — from local and state government to philanthropy and community-based organizations. We turn rigorous research into analytic tools and actionable solutions.

Trusted by public, philanthropic, and nonprofit leaders nationwide

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Housing Analytics
and Interventions

Housing Analytics and Interventions

We equip housing leaders with the market intelligence needed to target investments, implement and evaluate programs, prevent displacement, and drive equitable neighborhood change, translating complex data into strategies that work on the ground.

Advancing Early
Childhood Education

Advancing Early Childhood Education

We produce analytic tools that identify gaps in access to high-quality early childhood care and education ECE, so that leaders across all sectors can prioritize investments that ensure opportunities for all children— no matter what neighborhood they live in or where their family works.

Understanding
and Increasing
Food Access

Understanding and Increasing Food Access

We identify where lack of access to food is most acute, giving funders, officials, and businesses the evidence base to direct resources, shape policy, and expand access to fresh and healthy food.

Community
Insights and
Evaluation

Community Insights and Evaluation

We partner with civic leaders and philanthropies to measure what matters, providing rigorous, place- based analysis that connects programming and investments to real community outcomes. We consider the social return on investment, in addition to financial returns.

Housing Analytics and Interventions

We equip housing leaders with the market intelligence needed to target investments, prevent displacement, and drive equitable neighborhood change, translating complex data into strategies that work on the ground.

Advancing Early Childhood Education

We equip housing leaders with the market intelligence needed to target investments, prevent displacement, and drive equitable neighborhood change, translating complex data into strategies that work on the ground.

Understanding and Increasing Food Access

We identify where food insecurity is most acute and why. Giving decision-makers the evidence base to direct resources, shape policy, and expand access to fresh and healthy food.

Community Insights and Evaluation

We partner with civic leaders and philanthropies to measure what matters: providing rigorous, place-based analysis that connects program investment to real community outcomes.

Leaders Are Making High-Stakes Decisions Without A Clear Roadmap

We start by listening—partnering with local stakeholders to ground data in lived experience and community insight.

Local leaders are confronting complex challenges:

  • Housing affordability and displacement pressures
  • Barriers to high quality early childhood education
  • Uneven access to nutritious food
  • Lack of neighborhood-level clarity
  • The need for investments with social returns
  • Challenges converting data into policy, programming, and investment action 


Policy Solutions brings analytic precision and practical pathways forward — helping stakeholders convert data into actionable strategies.

Market Value Analysis in Action

The Market Value Analysis (MVA) is a core tool that helps decisionmakers understand housing market dynamics — from rising prices to disinvestment risk and opportunity, and intervene effectively.

Turning Insight Into Action

Here’s a powerful overview of how research and policy tools create clarity for communities and leaders.

METRO ATLANTA and southeast HOUSING EQUITY RESEARCH

Illuminating Disparities in Mortgage Access

Grounded in local context and informed by community realities, we shed light on persistent inequities shaping homeownership access. We delved deeply into Metro Atlanta and looked broadly across 10 Southeastern cities.


Impact Highlights:

• Revealed neighborhood-level disparities in lending

• Informed more equitable policy and investment strategies

• Equipped stakeholders with actionable insights


Exploring Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Mortgage Access Across Metro Atlanta (Reinvestment Fund)


What’s Driving Post-Pandemic Black-White Mortgage Access Gaps? A Spotlight on 10 Southeastern Cities

For Government, Philanthropic, Non-Profit, & Civic Leaders

EFFECTIVE & PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS

Analytic Tools

Analytic tools to guide public policy and program creation, implementation and impact assessment (including the MVA, ELA, and LSA).

Interactive Mapping

Highly-customizable, hyper-local, interactive displays presenting the results of advanced spatial-statistical analyses.

Thought Leadership

Thought leadership and advisory services in support of comprehensive policy, programming, and investment strategies.

Rigorous Research

Rigorous, applied research and evaluation on topics including neighborhood stabilization, attainable

homeownership, eviction prevention, displacement mitigation, and social well-being.

Creating a resilient future, where all people thrive.

Reinvestment Fund is a mission-driven nonprofit that uses financial and analytical tools to break down systemic barriers and expand access to housing, food, education, and healthcare. Through data-driven investments and partnerships, it fosters inclusive economic growth, ensuring all communities have the resources and opportunities to thrive. 

$3.2

Billion

Total Capital Deployed

63

Thousand

Jobs Created And Retained*

4.4

Million

People Positively Impacted

*Data from 2013-2024

What makes Reinvestment Fund different?

At Reinvestment Fund, we believe that lasting community change takes more than just capital—it takes alignment. We bring together organized people, money, capacity, and data to tackle systemic challenges. What sets us apart is how we use rigorous research and data as a catalyst—helping communities not only understand where the needs are greatest, but also how to invest wisely, scale what works, and build sustainable solutions that endure.

Ready to Turn Insight Into Action?

Our team works with community leaders to translate data into strategy and implementation support — from plan alignment to capital readiness and policy integration.

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