What Does a Good Housing “Impact Investment” Look Like?
July 15 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Impact investing has become a popular term in housing and community development—but what does it actually mean? More importantly, what does effective impact investing look like when the goal is creating and preserving affordable housing?
Join Shelterforce on July 15 for a conversation with community lenders, affordable housing practitioners, and investigative reporter Shelby King as we explore where impact investing succeeds, where it falls short, and what needs to change.
Panelists include:
Betty Francisco is CEO of Boston Impact Initiative, a place-based impact fund and CDFI that invests in businesses and real estate to build community ownership and worker power.
Kate Khatib, based in Baltimore, is co-executive director of Seed Commons, a cooperatively governed national CDFI loan fund that shifts economic power to workers and communities through community-based, non-extractive financial infrastructure.
Shelby King, based in Colorado near Denver, is Shelterforce’s investigative reporter, and has been writing about housing and community development since 2014.
Meridith Levy is executive director of Boston Neighborhood Community Land Trust, with a mission of stewarding permanently affordable, community-controlled housing.
David Lidz is asset manager at Rising Housing, which uses a worker co-op (called Waterbottle Co-op) to rehabilitate affordable housing in West Baltimore.
Moderating this webinar is Shelterforce strategic initiatives editor Steve Dubb. Steve has been a student, practitioner, writer, and editor in the field of housing and community economic development for over 25 years.