News Archives
2016
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Announcing SPARCC – A $90MM Investment in Creating Just and Equitable Places to Live
From New Orleans to Ferguson to Flint, our nation continues to grapple with finding common ground and creating communities that live up to the ideal of justice for all. Many of the decisions we have made about housing, education, the environment and health have created places and systems that have failed low income residents and […]…
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Celebrations Commence at New South Bronx Community Hub
A crowd gathered last week to celebrate the grand opening of Triangle Plaza Hub, a development that now provides access to nutritious food, health services and educational opportunities to residents of New York’s South Bronx community. Anchored by Fine Fare supermarket, the grocer will bring healthy, affordable food to one of New York’s largest food […]…
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Celebrations Commence at New South Bronx Community Hub
A crowd gathered last week to celebrate the grand opening of Triangle Plaza Hub, a development that now provides access to nutritious food, health services and educational opportunities to residents of New York’s South Bronx community. Anchored by Fine Fare supermarket, the grocer will bring healthy, affordable food to one of New York’s largest food […]…
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Can you tackle poverty without taking on place?
In a new article from Urban Institute, the organization offers evidence-based ideas on the importance of place when combating the effects of poverty. Where you come from has a deep and lasting impact on your ability to achieve the American Dream of upward economic mobility. What can be done about it? A series of antipoverty policies can […]…
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CDFIs Brief Congress on Innovative Community Investment Solutions
On May 12, community development leaders met on Capitol Hill in briefings of staff to Members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives on the critical role that community development financial institutions (CDFIs) play in connecting low income communities with the capital markets. Bi-partisan co-sponsors, Congressman Jose Serrano and Congressman Robert Dold, supported a […]…
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A Million Square Feet of Opportunity
In Memphis, Crosstown Arts is revitalizing a historic Sears building into a vertical urban village using arts as a catalyst for community change. …
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A Million Square Feet of Opportunity
In Memphis, Crosstown Arts is revitalizing a historic Sears building into a vertical urban village using arts as a catalyst for community change. …
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Week of the Young Child
This week, the Low Income Investment Fund (LIIF) joins all of San Francisco in celebrating Week of the Young Child. For more than 20 years, LIIF has invested directly in early care and education as a pathway to opportunity for low income families. LIIF uses capital, capacity building and public advocacy to support the improvement […]…
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LIIF Estimates $1 Trillion in Benefits from Administration Budget
LIIF Analysis Demonstrates High Social Return on Administration’s Budget Proposal A new analysis by the Low Income Investment Fund (LIIF) of the Obama Administration’s fiscal year (FY) 2017 budget estimates a yield of $860 billion in social benefits from the $150 billion investment the President proposes in new housing vouchers for homeless families, early childhood […]…
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How the Community Reinvestment Act Became Diluted and Why We Should Take Note
The Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) was established in 1978 to address years of federally-enabled bank redlining, which isolated communities of color in the credit market — making it nearly impossible to receive mortgages on homes in African American neighborhoods. CRA required banks to reinvest in all communities they serve, an move that would aid historically overlooked communities. A new […]…
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