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Spotlight on: Charmaine Curtis

San Francisco Business Times recognizes LISC Bay Area Local Advisory Committee member as an Influential Woman Who Leads in Real Estate and Construction. [...]

Applications Live: Advanced HDTI 2019

Applications are now open for LISC's 2019 Advanced Housing Development Training Institute! [...]

Alameda County announces $1 million fund to strengthen local nonprofits to drive affordable housing

Partnership with LISC, San Francisco Foundation will support faith-based and community-based organizations as they address critical housing shortfalls [...]

A Half-Billion Dollars to Tackle the Bay Area's Housing Crisis

"We will make an intense effort with community residents to make sure we are working on the problems (they) see need to be solved." - Maurice A. Jones [...]

What is LISC?

We are LISC—the Local Initiatives Support Corporation. It may be a mouthful, but our name does, in fact, say it all. We are a national organization with a grassroots focus. Bay Area LISC is one of 31 local LISC sites throughout the country, and with residents and partners, we forge resilient and inclusive communities of opportunity across the Bay Area - great places to live, work, do business, and raise families.

Stories

From National LISC:

7.31.2019 - LISC Stories

Intention Created the Racial Wealth Gap. It Will Take Intention to Close It.

In response to a deeply-reported article about black land loss co-published by The New Yorker and ProPublica, LISC CEO Maurice A. Jones underscores how this ongoing and insidious form of displacement has widened the country’s racial wealth gap. Just as that gap was wrought through intentional discriminatory policy and practices, says Jones, so it will take intentional action and law to close it.

7.25.2019 - In the News, Affordable Housing

Spotlight on: Charmaine Curtis, Bay Area LAC Member

Bay Area LISC Local Advisory Committee member Charmaine Curtis was recognized by the San Francisco Business Times as an Influential Woman Who Leads in Real Estate and Construction. In this interview, Charmaine shares advice for young women of color looking to break into the real estate and construction industries, and shares her vision for development that balances profit and purpose.

From National LISC:

7.11.2019 - LISC Stories

Walking the Talk of Racial Equity

LISC Phoenix’s Dominic Braham is a 2019 PLACES fellow with the Funder’s Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities (alongside LISC NYC's Grace Chung). When the fellowship brought him to Newark, NJ for a site visit, it sparked a realization: Braham saw that he had to think critically about pushing for racial equity from both an individual and an institutional perspective. In a blog for the Funder’s Network, he shares the toolbox he’s been assembling to challenge the status quo in community development leadership, and to convert conversations about change into action.