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LISC and Coalition Partners Awarded $2 Billion via National Clean Investment Fund
LISC is one of five organizations leading Power Forward Communities, a new coalition investing in green housing and jobs to support economic opportunity and climate resilience. Today, the EPA awarded the coalition $2 billion to implement a decarbonization strategy that also lifts up under-resourced communities—making housing more affordable, mitigating climate impacts and improving local health.
Release: LISC NY, MURAL Real Estate Partners Close on Deal to Add More Than 230 Affordable Homes - Jamaica, Queens
LISC NY and MURAL Real Estate Partners recently announced the successful closing of a $24.7 million loan that will contribute to the development and revitalization of a bustling neighborhood of Jamaica in Queens, NY.
LISC, Enterprise + New York Fed to Publish Book on Community Development and Climate Change
What’s Possible: Investing NOW for Prosperous, Sustainable Neighborhoods, due out in early 2024, will be a comprehensive collection of essays by experts dissecting the multiple challenges to communities on the frontlines of climate change – and how our sector can help those communities build resiliency. “When we develop climate solutions that respond to long-standing inequities, …