impact investing

some communities in the United States seem much better than others at attracting grants and financing for community development—even after adjusting for their relative needs. Here are some of the surprising trends:

What if the future of shared equity homeownership was not dependent on government subsidies? Vivacité – Société immobilière solidaire, a Quebec-based non-profit organization, designed a shared equity program based on a social economy model that leverages impact investors to ensure perpetual affordability and scales its impact.

If you want to explore impact investing further, here are some places to start.

New sources of mission-driven private capital could step up to support community development where traditional sources of financing are withdrawing.

Impact investing may seem like a market-based concept, but government can and does support, enable, and participate in it many ways.

It should be a natural fit; what’s in the way?

In November 2013, Morgan Stanley launched its Institute for Sustainable Investing and announced that within five years it was aiming to manage $10 billion in client assets targeted to “impact […]

When was the last time you sat down with your financial manager and the actually considered the various tranches of capital you would need?

Impact investing—the deployment of capital with the intent of not only generating financial return, but also producing measurable social and environmental impacts—is not new. Living Cities has engaged in impact […]