Community development corporations and other nonprofit organizations are increasingly responsible for producing and managing low-income housing in urban America. This article examines the network of governmental, philanthropic, educational, and other institutions that channel financial, technical, and political support to nonprofit housing sponsors. We analyze the relationships among these institutions and propose an explanation for their success. We then consider challenges the network must confront if the reinvention of federal housing policy is to succeed.Block grants and rental vouchers, the dominant emphases of federal policy, present opportunities and constraints for nonprofit housing groups and their institutional networks. While states and municipalities are likely to continue to use block grants for nonprofit housing, the viability of this housing will be severely tested as project-based operating subsidies are replaced by tenantbased vouchers. We recommend ways that the federal, state, and local governments should help the institutional support network respond to this challenge.

The viability of the low income housing built by nonprofit organizations in US cities hinges on the ability of these groups to maintain and manage it. Nonprojt sponsors and their institutional support system have only recently begun to recognize the importance of property and asset management. First priority continues to be housing production, followed by organizational capacity building. This paper explores how the institutional support network for nonprofit housing has begun to address the need for stronger property management. Drawing from recent six city study, the authors examine different ways by which local and national networks provide financial and technical support for property management. They conclude with a series of recommendations f o r broadening and strengthening institutional support f o r property management in the nonprofit sector.Nonprofit organizations are central to the delivery of affordable housing in many parts of the United States. Community Development Corporations (CDCs), religious organiza-*

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