News Archives
2012
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Transit-Oriented Development Helps Economic Growth
Arlington, Virginia, and the Ballston-Rosslyn transit corridor offers one of the country’s most prominent examples of successful Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) policy that have spurred economic growth and community revitalization. Drawing on the Arlington County project, the Partnership for Sustainable Communities released a recent article highlighting the community benefits of the smart growth planning approach…
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LIIF & Morgan Stanley Op-Ed in Huffington Post Says TOD Can Help Get America to Work
In an op-ed published in the Huffington Post, Nancy O. Andrews, LIIF’s President and CEO, and Audrey Choi, Managing Director and Head of Global Sustainable Finance at Morgan Stanley, voice that integrating transit, affordable housing and community services has both economic and social benefits for the nation…
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What Are the Links Between Housing and Health?
In a recent roundtable discussion on the link between housing, neighborhoods and health, Nancy O. Andrews, President and CEO of LIIF, offered perspectives on how the community development and housing sectors can contribute to better health outcomes for low income people…
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Newark Leaders Praise Community Health Center Expansion
U.S. Senator Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ) joined Newark City Council members and other city leaders to participate in a groundbreaking ceremony for the 20,000-square-foot expansion of the Newark Community Health Center (NCHC)…
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LIIF & Morgan Stanley Paper Connects TOD, Jobs & Healthy Communities
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Better Together
The health and community development sectors are natural partners to address the health and wealth disparities facing our nation. The two sectors already work in many overlapping and complementary ways, but moving beyond coordination to integration will require new ways of working from both sides. LIIF President & CEO Nancy O. Andrews and Director of […]…
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LIIF Joins FHLBank San Francisco
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N.Y. Healthy Food & FRESH Program assists in the development of new supermarkets
In certain neighborhoods of New York there is a lack of supermarkets and nutritious food. Over the past three years, the New York Healthy Food & Healthy Communities Fund (HFHC) has provided $6.14 million in loans and grants to seven supermarket projects aimed at improving access to nutritious food for people in underserved communities in New York State.…
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Massachusetts Avenue Project unveils new food truck
The Massachusetts Avenue Project (MAP), which distributes healthy food to low income areas in Buffalo, New York, held a launch event for its new food truck. The New York Healthy Food & Healthy Communities Fund provided financing that enabled MAP to purchase of the truck.…
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LIIF Helps ACE Build New School & Create Jobs
LIIF, with support from the Starbucks and Opportunity Finance Network initiative Create Jobs for USA, provided a $3.75 million loan to ACE Charter School for the construction of a new middle school campus. The new school, which will open this fall, will enable ACE to expand by 100 students. ACE will hire seven new employees […]…
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