HOPS was organized to help solve the inequity of fair and equal housing access throughout the Southeast Wisconsin region. To further this goal, four HOPS Task Groups were organized to develop recommendations and strategies to implement those recommendations. The four task groups include the Sustainable Communities and Fair Housing Task Group, the Mortgage Lending Task Group, the Wealth-Building Task Group, and the Regional Policy Agenda for Sustainable Communities Task Group.

This report represents the culmination of a year long process of fact-finding, discussion, debate, negotiation and concensus building for the four HOPS task groups. It is a summary of the recommendations and strategies that those groups developed.