News Archives
2017
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Capital Magnet Fund: A Smart Solution for Affordable Housing and Community Development
A safe, decent, affordable home is a key element of the American dream. The Capital Magnet Fund (CMF) is a Federal program that contributes to this vision. CMF was founded understanding that housing investments lead to stronger communities, stronger families and stronger futures. This, in turn, spurs regional and national economic growth. There is good […]…
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SF Nonprofit Gets Around High Rent by Buying Its Building
Mission Child Care Consortium is a early care and education center serving mostly low income kids in San Francisco since 1969. Thanks in part to a $3.6 million loan and $800,000 grant from LIIF, the center was able to buy its building and ensure its viability for years to come. The center — which cares […]…
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Every Seat Counts: Public-Private Partnerships to Preserve Affordable Child Care in San Francisco
Each morning, parents on their way to work drop off more than 220 children at the Mission Child Care Consortium (MCC), nestled in the heart of San Francisco’s Excelsior District. Established in 1969, the center is the city’s largest child care facility. For parents in the Excelsior District, a historically working-class Latino neighborhood now facing […]…
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New Ideas, New Allies: How Unlikely Partnerships are Transforming Community Development
What works to tackle poverty in the U.S.? How do we improve the prospects for every child in our country? Almost five years ago, the Low Income Investment Fund (LIIF) along with colleagues in the community development, private and public sectors sought answers to these difficult questions in the book, Investing in What Works for […]…
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Infrastructure, Inclusivity & Opportunity: Building the places we live, work and play is a matter of equity
In Boyle Heights, a predominantly Latino community in East Los Angeles, decades of freeway construction have boxed in much of the neighborhood, limiting residents’ access to opportunities and turning the area into a “toxic hot spot” by concentrating pollution in the neighborhood. Children living in Boyle Heights have asthma hospitalization rates nearly twice the state […]…
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What’s the Role of Affordable Housing Resident Services in Health Care Transformation?
Today, health professionals across the nation are looking increasingly at social determinants of health that can lead to negative and avoidable outcomes, including chronic illnesses like diabetes. These conditions drive demand for costly services such as emergency room visits, hospitalization and nursing home admissions. Research shows that while clinical care accounts for some 10% of […]…
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What’s the Role of Affordable Housing Resident Services in Health Care Transformation?
Today, health professionals across the nation are looking increasingly at social determinants of health that can lead to negative and avoidable outcomes, including chronic illnesses like diabetes. These conditions drive demand for costly services such as emergency room visits, hospitalization and nursing home admissions. Research shows that while clinical care accounts for some 10% of […]…
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Partnering for Prevention: CDFIs, Health Care Providers Tackle Neighborhood Disparities
Residents of Old Southwest Baltimore cannot take for granted the ability to grow old and stay healthy. With a neighborhood population of about 18,000 people, the life expectancy in certain areas is as low as 64 years—barely old enough to collect Social Security, and drastically short of Baltimore’s city-wide life expectancy of 71 years. Today, […]…
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Partnering for Prevention: CDFIs, Health Care Providers Tackle Neighborhood Disparities
Residents of Old Southwest Baltimore cannot take for granted the ability to grow old and stay healthy. With a neighborhood population of about 18,000 people, the life expectancy in certain areas is as low as 64 years—barely old enough to collect Social Security, and drastically short of Baltimore’s city-wide life expectancy of 71 years. Today, […]…
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Fund Aims to Make TODs Affordable
The Regional Equitable Development Initiative (REDI) Fund was created to help finance the acquisition of affordable housing along public transit corridors in the Seattle metro area. Led by Enterprise, and funded in part by LIIF, the REDI Fund is a $21 million revolving loan fund. “Prosperous regions throughout our country are experiencing displacement of low-income […]…
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