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Need flexible capital? Make LIIF your lender of choice.
Looking to make an impactful investment? Connect with LIIF.
Have facilities needs? LIIF supports government agencies and child care providers.
Looking to make a difference? LIIF advocates so communities are strengthened.
LIIF’s Vice President, Early Care and Education Angie Garling was quoted in a BBC article around the federal mandates around child care for the semiconductor sector. The mandate was put forth as the U.S. started soliciting applications from firms for the first of the billions in subsidies for the chips industry that Congress approved last…
A dance hall in Monterey Park. Farms in Half Moon Bay. A music-video set in Oakland. Yet three more locales – this time all in California in just two days – added to the nation’s growing list of places where mass shootings have taken place. As of this writing, this trio of unconscionable incidents translated…
On Monday, Dec. 5, the Low Income Investment Fund (LIIF) submitted detailed comments to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with recommendations to ensure the Agency’s implementation of the new Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) is equitable, effective and prioritizes the most-vulnerable people and communities, GGRF is a new $27 billion program enacted as part of…
From high-rise buildings on urban streets to rural neighborhoods with miles between houses, families are at the core of every community across the country. It’s the parents and children, brothers and sisters, grandparents and close friends who we celebrate with in good times and grieve with together in challenging times. Family is what forms so…
Like many stakeholders across the community development industry and beyond, LIIF has spent much of the last year closely following the Biden-Harris administration’s Build Back Better Act and envisioning opportunities to fundamentally shift inequitable systems. The more than $400 billion proposed investment in the early care and education (ECE) sector – including universal pre-K for all three and four-year-olds and policies…
When LIIF introduced its new strategic plan, “Mobilizing Capital to Build Communities of Opportunity, Equity and Well-Being” last year we set a bold goal of mobilizing $5 billion in capital over the next decade to advance racial equity. The plan recognized that LIIF must more intentionally use its primary engine for change – its lending platform – to center racial equity and truly move the needle on opportunity for everyone. Structural racism is built into…
To address the affordable housing crisis our nation faces, the Low Income Investment Fund (LIIF), Stewards of Affordable Housing for the Future (SAHF) and National Affordable Housing Trust (NAHT) recognized it would take a broad collective effort to re-imagine and change the long-standing approaches, policies and systems that reinforce persistent inequities in low-income and Black and Latino communities. In 2020, the three…
This story is part of LIIF’s 2020 Annual Impact Report. “When you’re checking a box called ‘community engagement’ you will fail….When you see that without engagement with the community, you cannot achieve the transformative change in your community, that’s when you realize it’s something that you have to do.” – Paul Schmitz, former CEO of…
This story is part of LIIF’s 2020 Annual Impact Report. On the heels of the greatest health crisis our nation has seen in a century, there has been an avalanche of near and present crises: an unemployment crisis, a care and education crisis, and looming eviction and displacement crisis. The cascade has reached the base…
It’s a Spring day in San Diego when Zephyr opens its doors to 84 formerly homeless veterans who will call this apartment building home. For the residents – some of whom have lived on the street for years – the transition to being housed is often both powerful and overwhelming. “Many of our residents have…