Category: Policy

LIIF CEO Daniel A. Nissenbaum shared insights around innovations and investments in affordable housing and community development as a guest speaker at the Nov. 5 National Association of Affordable Housing Lenders (NAAHL)/Center for Affordable Housing Lending (CAHL) “2025 Policy and Practice Conference.” The theme was “Unlocking Housing Supply, Unlocking Economic Opportunity,” with the venue the…

LIIF National Policy Manager Makenzi Sumners shared insights on The Road Home podcast from the National Coalition for Homeless Veterans (NCHV). On the episode, “Bridging Capital and Communities with the Low Income Investment Fund,” she spoke on how community development financial institutions (CDFIs), such as LIIF, are investing in communities of opportunity across the nation, while…

The Low Income Investment Fund (LIIF) proudly supports the Renewing Opportunity in the American Dream (ROAD) to Housing Act of 2025, a critical step forward in addressing our nation’s growing housing crisis. As a national community development financial institution (CDFI) dedicated to creating opportunity and increasing housing stability, LIIF has long recognized that safe, stable…

On April 16, LIIF Chief Executive Officer Daniel A. Nissenbaum was honored to share insights on the critical role that CDFIs play when he attended an invite-only briefing with the U.S. Treasury Deputy Secretary Michael Faulkender and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Community and Economic Development Alexandria Smith. For three decades, CDFIs have created innovative financing tools to revitalize communities by…

Today, U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), with five colleagues in the Senate, reintroduced legislation to help working families access affordable housing and child care. U.S. Representative Suzanne Bonamici (D-Ore.) introduced companion legislation in the House. The Build Housing with Care Act would invest $500 million to construct child care centers co-located in affordable housing developments…

LIIF coordinated with the Capital Magnet Fund (CMF) Coalition on comments to the revised CMF Interim rule. The interim rule proposes revisions to definitions and program requirements, revisions to project-level requirements, updates to address business practices in affordable housing and the consolidation of economic development activities under a new section for a more comprehensive articulation…

LIIF joined the New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) Working Group to provide comments in response to the CDFI Fund’s request for public comments on the NMTC Program Allocation Application. The members of the NMTC Working Group are participants in the industry who work together to help resolve technical program issues — and provide recommendations to…

LIIF is proud to have signed onto the National Council of State Housing Agencies’ HOME Coalition FY25 appropriations request letter that has been sent to House and Senate appropriations committees. Read the letter.

LIIF Joe Fretwell recently offered recommendations at two hearings. The topics were how a robust, quality supply of child care is essential to the District’s ability to achieve various economic development, growth and planning goals of the Council and the Mayor, plus how the District can be more proactive in efforts to support child-development facilities…

LIIF submitted a comment letter to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Administration for Children and Families (ACF) in response to a Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) aimed at strengthening the Head Start program.   The proposed changes add new requirements to the Head Start Program Performance Standards (HSPPS) to support and stabilize…