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Money, Time and Power: Models and Lessons in Resident-Led Development

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…

Housing Finance Solves for Divestment and Displacement

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…

Financial First Responder: Our 2020 COVID Relief Work

This story is part of LIIF’s 2020 Annual Impact Report. Maria Naranjo had raised a family and worked in early care and education for years when, in 2009, she purchased a two-story row house in Washington, D.C., to fulfill her dream of running her own child care business from her home. She spent a decade…

Supportive Housing: Meeting People Where They Are

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…