Affordable Housing

The Cornerstone of Our Work

A safe, affordable home is one of the basic requisites of life—a key to individual health and well-being, and the foundation for sustainable, eco-nomically vibrant and diverse neighborhoods.

Housing is where LISC started. LISC continues to make quality, affordable housing available to low-income and vulnerable residents—from seniors to veterans to the formerly homeless—in underserved communities. LISC invests in all kinds of affordable housing.

We help develop new multi-family rentals and preserve existing ones that could be lost to market forces or deterioration. We finance sustainable, “green” construction and rehabilitation, which makes for lower operating costs and has been proven to boost health outcomes for occupants and entire neighborhoods. And we lead foreclosure interventions that help people keep their homes, or that reinvigorate communities where foreclosure has created a downward spiral for communities.

Since 1980, LISC NY has financed more than 45,000 homes

To make this all happen, LISC provides grants, loans and equity for nearly every aspect of development, from planning and acquisition to construction and renovation. We offer technical assistance and we advocate for good housing policy at all levels of government.