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Climate

Book Launch: “What’s Possible: Investing NOW for Prosperous, Sustainable Neighborhoods”

EVENT | May 17, 2024

Learn about What’s Possible, a collaboration of Enterprise, LISC, and the New York Fed. The book gathers the voices of leading climate and community development experts and offers practical solutions for clean energy, resilience, and equity, intended as a playbook for taking collective action to build a stronger, more inclusive future.

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Economic Education

Teacher Professional Development: Demonstrating Economics Is Integral to Life

BY Graham Long | May 9, 2024

Our free programs for educators reach almost 600 teachers a year. Through these professional development training and education programs, we demonstrate how economics is an integral aspect of history, civics and geography. In this article, we describe how economics provides tools students can use in class and in life.

Our Community Development team is focusing on three key areas: health, household financial well-being, and climate change. Learn more about our strategy, developed in collaboration with the Bridgespan Group, a leading social impact advisor, to connect emerging solutions with funding to foster racial equity and improve life for underserved communities.

The Role of Fintech in Unsecured Consumer Lending to Low- and Moderate-Income Individuals

Household Financial Well-Being

Examining the Origination and Sale of Loans by Community Development Financial Institutions

BY Jacob Scott, Maria Carmelita Recto, and Jonathan Kivell | May 8, 2024

The Community Development team's latest publication examines loan origination by Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) for a four-year period ending in 2022. It quantifies the amount of CDFI loans sold during the same period, and the role played by the ten most active CDFIs in both loan volume and loan resale.

Household Financial Well-Being

Expanding Access to Capital for CDFIs

EVENT | May 14, 2024

On Tuesday, May 14, 2024, the New York Fed hosted a hybrid event focused on expanding access to capital for Community Development Financial Institutions. Speakers explored the current state of capital access for CDFIs, including origination and sale of loans by CDFIs; discuss the challenges and opportunities for the industry to expand; and give an overview of potential policy initiatives.

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HOUSEHOLD FINANCIAL WELL-BEING

Institutional Investors in Multifamily Affordable Housing

April 3, 2024

On Wednesday, April 3, 2024, the New York Fed hosted an in-person event focused on multifamily affordable housing, including insights into institutional investments in affordable housing by pensions, corporations, and impact investors. The event explored opportunities for market growth, barriers to investments, and the need for equity capital to finance affordable housing development and preservation.

Our hope is that by identifying and elevating promising ideas that have the potential to make transformative changes, and by connecting those ideas with funding, we can begin to dismantle racism and poverty.

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HEALTH

Investing in Arts and Culture for Healthy Communities

Event | March 27, 2024

On Wednesday, March 27, 2024, the New York Fed, in partnership with One Nation/One Project, hosted a hybrid event focused on equitable models of arts-based health programs with measurable outcomes. The public event followed an invitation-only roundtable discussion on topics including the arts, public health, and community development finance.

Household Financial Well-Being

A Case Study of Pension Fund Investments in Multifamily Affordable Housing

BY Talor Crawford, Jonathan Kivell, and Maria Carmelita Recto | FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The New York Fed’s Community Development team is studying institutional investments in affordable apartments to understand how private capital investments may affect rents. Its latest publication is a case study that examines pension fund investments in affordable rentals, totaling over $2.7 billion during a five-and-a-half-year period ending June 2023.

Health

Fostering Neighborhoods: Hospitals and the Development of Affordable Housing

Event | March 7, 2024

On Thursday, March 7, 2024, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, in partnership with the NYU Furman Center, hosted a hybrid event encouraging cross-sector collaboration to build more affordable housing in New York City.

‘Human capital’ means everyone from a toddler spooning applesauce in a house down a gravel driveway to a neurosurgeon finishing her coffee in a brownstone. What happens to our people determines the wealth of our nation. – David Erickson