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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. [...]

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

8.30.2019 - In the News, Press Releases, Success Stories

LISC Honored as Best of Oakland 2019!

The LISC Bay Area team was recently selected as the Best of Oakland for Housing Development! We appreciate all of the support from our partners, and aim to be the #BestForTheBay!

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.