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Distressed communities need supportive public policies to rebuild. LISC maintains an active public policy presence at the federal, state and local levels. The objectives of LISC's policy initiatives are established through careful collaboration with our local offices and LISC’s Public Policy Advisory Committee. LISC’s policy office assists local program offices along with rural and urban CDCs with the advocacy process while working with other national and state organizations on wide-ranging community development issues.

LISC’s locally driven and partnership-based approach to policy attracts support from both ends of the political spectrum. Rural and urban policy makers alike recognize LISC’s well-documented success in building communities while leveraging substantial private capital. Additionally, LISC’s holistic approach to building communities attracts policy allies from the from business, social service, education, environmental, and community development sectors.

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Experts Online - Housing Policies and Neighborhood Strategies to Strengthen Weak Markets
11/08/2005
This session highlighted two new LISC publications, Building a Better Urban Future: New Directions for Housing Policies in Weak Market Cities, written by Alan Mallach, and The Ripple Effect: Economic Impacts of Targeted Community Investments. The publications illustrate how to attract much-needed market capital to strengthen the markets in cities that have not benefited effectively from the economic boom of the past decade. Unlike their counterparts in stronger markets, these cities have faced continued population and job losses leading to dismal economic conditions.

Experts Online - Smart Metropolitan Neighborhoods Series: Comprehensive Neighborhood Planning
07/12/2005
Co-sponsored by the American Planning Association and Smart Growth America, this session of the Smart Metropolitan Neighborhood series showcased three communities that used citizen-based planning to rebuild neighborhoods of choice, bringing multiple resources and stakeholders to the table. The examples included San Jose, CA; Greensboro, NC; and Philadelphia.

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Generous Supporters of LISC Policy

Living Cities
Prudential Financial, Inc.
Reed Smith
The Fannie Mae Foundation
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)