The Residences at Kenilworth Park
LISC provided predevelopment funding to support an affordable assisted living community that will have 150 affordable apartments and supportive services for Medicaid-eligible and other qualified elderly DC residents.
Building Inclusive and Healthy Neighborhoods, Block by Block: Findings from 11 Neighborhoods Nationwide
A new report from Brookings Metro examines LISC’s community-centered economic inclusion initiative, which centers neighborhoods as the key setting for driving strong regional economies. The lessons in this report make one thing clear: To truly transform the prosperity and well-being of entire cities and regions, it’s past time to abandon top-down or “trickle-down” approaches and embrace the actionable, community-rooted models that have demonstrated impact in cities and neighborhoods nationwide. Image above courtesy of Jana River Medlock Photography
Urban Village
LISC provided finacing to fund the development of the Urban Village affordable housing community in Colunbia Heights Neighborhood of Washington, D.C.
Hope View Apartments & Recovery Café
LISC provided a $500,000 predevelopment loan to support the construction of Hope View Apartments, a 42-unit deeply afforable rental building with commercial space on the ground floor for Recovery Café DC.
Stable Homes and Resident Empowerment
This report from the LISC Community Research and Impact team describes COPA and TOPA policies at work and their outcomes in DC and San Francisco, implementation lessons, and evidence about the impact of these policies based on preliminary LISC analyses of housing market dynamics in New York City.
First Street Village
LISC provided a predevelopment loan to support ERCPCP's first development project that will turn underutilized land owned by District churches into affordable housing.