Low Income Investment Fund

06/05/2026

🚨Heads up ECE stakeholders in and around Albuquerque 🚨

Join us for Child Care: Growing Supply TOMORROW Saturday, June 6 from 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM at Starr Brothers Brewing Company.

This free community event, hosted by LIIF alongside Growing Up New Mexico and the New Mexico Early Childhood Education and Care Department (ECECD), will bring together state and local leaders, early childhood educators, families, and community partners for food, resources, and conversation about growing the child care supply in New Mexico.

Come stop by!

06/03/2026

This week's episode of National Housing Conference's podcast Beyond Four Walls revisits the panel 'Communicating Before, During, and After a Natural Disaster' from last April's Solutions for Housing Communications Convening at the National Press Club in Washington, DC -- featuring none other than LIIF's own Angie Garling, senior vice president for early care and education.

On how stakeholders can best support communities to prepare themselves and providers for future potential disasters, Angie recommends that "communities have connections with these providers…One of the reasons [Low Income Investment Fund] had an advantage after the fires is that we had pre-existing relationships."

Listen to the whole conversation: https://bit.ly/3Q0Phs5

On April 8, the National Housing Conference hosted its Solutions for Housing Communications convening at the National Press Club. The event brought together policymakers and affordable housing…

05/22/2026

Last month, LIIF was proud to close on a $3.76MM secured acquisition loan for the purchase of South Broadway, a three-parcel site in Yonkers, N.Y. that will eventually be the home of 181 units of and municipal parking.

This New York Green Bank-qualifying project will deliver affordable, sustainable housing for residents earning 30–80% of area median income (AMI) and is designed to be fully electric and in compliance with both Passive House and Enterprise Green Communities standards for healthy and energy-efficient homes.

In keeping with LIIF’s mission to strengthen opportunity, equity and well-being in undercapitalized communities, the project will promote economic equity for smaller development firms with less liquidity by fronting fees owed during predevelopment.

This critical redevelopment is led by a joint venture among Urban Builders Collaborative (UBC), Pine Street Capital Partners and the Center for Urban Rehabilitation and Empowerment (C.U.R.E.).

Last month, LIIF was proud to close on a $3.76MM secured acquisition loan for the purchase of South Broadway, a three-parcel site in Yonkers, N.Y. that will eventually be the home of 181 units of affordable housing and municipal parking in the coming years. This NY Green Bank-qualifying project will...

05/20/2026

LIIF applauds the House for passing bipartisan comprehensive housing legislation and encourage the two chambers to work together to iron out differences and pass a final bill that preserves existing and builds new in communities of opportunity.

Read via National Public Radio: https://bit.ly/4dn979X

The bill is meant to encourage home construction, and would ban corporate investors from buying up more homes to rent out.

05/08/2026

Child care providers are the workforce behind our workforce.

Today is , an opportunity recognize the dedication, expertise, and care that child care providers bring to their work—and the essential role they play in our economy and our communities.

Take a moment to read about Joy and Crystal Cyprian of Joy's Children's Learning Center in Baldwin Park, California--who were featured recently in the CA State Treasurer's March newsletter--and the support they received from LIIF that enabled them to grow their business.

"More than just financial support, they created a partnership where we felt seen, supported, and empowered to expand our business with confidence."

Read more: http://bit.ly/3P8NYXO

02/26/2026

Did you catch our latest newsletter? Highlights in February include…

• LIIF joining Boston Mayor Michelle Wu 吳弭 and other local community stakeholders at the ribbon-cutting ceremony for Franklin Cummings Tech’s new 68,000-square-foot educational facility, located in Roxbury neighborhood’s Nubian Square.

• Congress advancing the Housing for the 21st Century Act, the first major legislation in over a decade and a meaningful step toward addressing the nation’s housing-affordability crisis.

• ECE Deputy Director, California Vanessa Macias's moving piece, published recently in The 74's LA School Report, on her experience leading LA RISE disaster-relief efforts for providers impacted by the January 2025 Los Angeles County wildfires.

… and so much more!

Read our February newsletter to get the full scoop:

https://bit.ly/3N2WA12

Earlier this month, community lenders cheered the passage and signing into law of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 federal appropriations package, which included $324 million for the Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Fund and preserved critical federal support for the Fund’s programs th...

02/11/2026

LIIF's ECE Deputy Director, California, Vanessa Macias, writes movingly in L.A. School Report on the past year of wildfire recovery efforts for child care providers through LA RISE, and reflects on the lessons we've learned as we continue to support this essential but often-overlooked workforce.

Read for yourself👇👇👇

https://bit.ly/4txNzNN

One year has passed since the devastating wildfires across Southern California. Recovery, I’ve learned, does not happen on a predictable timeline; it is a slow, uneven and deeply human process. For thousands of child care providers across Los Angeles, this was an arduous journey with unique challe...

02/06/2026

We are privileged to announce the closing of several loans to expand supply with Visionary Homebuilders of California California (“VHB”), for their Manzanita Villas project in Rescue, California.

Once constructed, Manzanita Villas will feature 100 units of affordable housing in a region grappling with a severe housing shortage. The development will target families with annual median incomes (AMIs) between 30% and 80%, who have been increasingly squeezed by Rescue’s lack of affordable units. Impressively, 42% of the units will have three- or four-bedrooms—a rarity among affordable developments--and critically will include a community center and a co-located Head Start facility.

VHB originated in 1983 as a small initiative among farmers living in public housing in the San Joaquin Valley who wanted to strengthen public housing for other Central Valley farmworkers. VHB is now a leading non-profit housing developer with a mission to create healthy, vibrant, safe communities through affordable housing and educational opportunities for families, seniors, and individuals of low and moderate income.

LIIF provided a $2,875,000 secured acquisition loan and a $750,000 unsecured predevelopment loan—which included Golden State Acquisition Fund (“GSAF”) dollars that enabled lower capital costs for VHB and lower balance-sheet risk for LIIF.

02/02/2026

This , LIIF celebrates the countless contributions of those who have worked tirelessly to create communities of opportunity for all. We recognize our partners working every day to offer access to capital.

01/30/2026

LIIF's first newsletter of 2026 has hit your inboxes!

This month we're thrilled to release LIIF's Annual Impact Report for Fiscal Year (FY) 2025, highlighting our successes and nationwide impact in 2025 and reaffirming our status as a leader in capital innovation.

As of the start of FY26, LIIF has invested $3.9 billion in communities in every corner of the country, placing us 77% of the way toward achieving our 10-year goal to drive $5 billion in investments to strengthen communities by 2030.

Read more to get the latest:

https://tinyurl.com/bdeu5jw2

As we settle into the new year, we are thrilled to release our Annual Impact Report for Fiscal Year (FY) 2025, which highlights LIIF’s impact over the course of the year and showcases our continued status as a leader in capital innovation. Our mission remains unchanged: to raise and structure capi...