We provide the experience and skill needed to raise resources that can address the financial gaps often associated with reinvestment in urban core neighborhoods. These projects jump start revitalization, improve the physical appearance of neighborhoods, anchor economic and social infrastructure, stimulate new investment and provide the foundation for dramatic changes in quality of life. 

Qualified nonprofit partners and for-profit developers can apply for a full range of financial products to cover the various stages of the real estate development process including:

• Pre-development loans, including feasibility studies
• Acquisition loans
• Construction loans
• Permanent financing
• Equity and intermediary capital loans
• Revolving working capital loans
• Lines of credit

Greater Cincinnati LISC can also provide technical and financial assistance in specialized areas of expertise through National LISC in the following areas:

• Healthcare facility projects
• Charter and alternative school facility projects
• Renovation/new construction of community football fields through the NFL Grassroots Program
• Housing preservation projects
• Public housing projects

Photos: Russell Street rowhouses (before & after)  Center for Great Neighborhoods of Covington

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Financing Community Development

LISC Loan Products

To inquire about financing, please contact:

Brandon Holmes 

Program Officer for Lending & Underwriting

(513) 723-1026 x13 or bholmes@lisc.org