LISC Research

Neighborhood science for community change

[LISC Research @LISCResearch]

Announcing the New Creative Placemaking Technical Assistance Website! https://t.co/cAhtDNc7CL

The website celebrates the power of arts and culture in strengthening communities, and offers an abundance of resources for anyone working in creative placemaking or curious about it!

[LISC Institute for Community Power @LISCInstitute]

Our latest @LISCResearch brief finds that #TOPA & #COPA policies paired with preservation investments can be powerful tools for racial equity. https://t.co/9CiXTfR9xn

[Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) @LISC_HQ]

“If you don't look like the community and you're not from the community, you can't understand where the hurts are.” A new @LISCInstitute Spotlight highlights the importance of community ownership, voice + leadership: https://t.co/JCOeUcf0Il @LISC_Philly @LISC_Newark @LISC_Houston

[LISC Institute for Community Power @LISCInstitute]

An important piece from @oscarthinks @NextCityOrg on the growing movement of community-owned commercial real estate, featuring @LISCResearch's new report, "Commercial Community Ownership as a Strategy for Just Development."

[LISC Research @LISCResearch]

“I wanted to stay in the area because I grew up here,” says Crystal Ortiz of her business Waxery in @oscarthinks @NextCityOrg on community-owned commercial real estate.
https://t.co/KiaICrNx45

[LISC Institute for Community Power @LISCInstitute]

Don't miss this upcoming @LISC_HQ webinar with @LISCDeniseScott @IX_Unidxs @EloraRaymond & @hvogell on how tenants are organizing for solutions to rising rents & evictions, and to address private equity's role in driving the housing crisis. Register here!
https://t.co/hogXmtzTa0

[LISC Research @LISCResearch]

"Community ownership models...reshape relationships between people, place, power, and property" writes Julia Duranti-Martínez in LISC's new report on commercial community ownership. #entrepreneursofcolor #antidisplacement

https://t.co/lnIOsmwnis

[Community Service Society of New York (CSS) @CSSNYorg]

New Yorkers urgently need a system that cares more about housing’s value as a home and less about its value as real estate. We’ve identified 20 social housing policies that can get us there.

Learn more in our latest report @ https://t.co/emR0TBth8h

[Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) @LISC_HQ]

In a new LISC x @npquarterly series, @BrookingsMetro's @andreperryedu shares insight on how anti-racist community action can break down systemic barriers - reminding us that "lasting ideas go to Washington, not from it." https://t.co/ynFFdhvaEe

[LISC Research @LISCResearch]

As Hurricane Ian makes landfall, timely reflections on environmental justice, climate resilience and the Inflation Reduction Act from Mark Kudlowitz on LISC's Policy team.

[Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) @LISC_HQ]

The new Inflation Reduction Act offers groundbreaking opportunities to combat #environmentalinjustice. A new blog by LISC's Mark Kudlowitz examines how the law can boost #commdev capacity to support underserved communities suffering from climate change: https://t.co/0FhCm2jdPh

[Harvard JCHS @Harvard_JCHS]

The number homes purchased by investors continues to climb. #harvardhousingreport

[LISC Research @LISCResearch]

Important long-form piece from @oscarthinks @NextCityOrg on the work of Black entrepreneurs to collectively acquire and transform commercial property. Also highlights tie-ins to public policy and financing, including from @LISCChicago
https://t.co/xIylpn2y8e

[Denise Scott @LISCDeniseScott]

Local governments need to address the growing predatory phenomenon of corporations buying up single family homes & turning them into high-cost rentals. This is likely to destroy the single family housing market in many neighborhoods, esp in markets that are predominately BIPOC.

[LISC Research @LISCResearch]

“I think everyone knows that it’s past the moment to be taking land and housing off of the speculative market.” - Elise Goldin @NewEconomyNYC in
https://t.co/LeQEIBOIJa

[Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) @LISC_HQ]

The #COVID19 pandemic exacerbated health inequities. A new @LISCResearch report shows how CBOs can work with hospitals and insurers to promote equity –while saving on healthcare costs. #Medicaid #Healthcare https://t.co/4nrQuTnoF3

[Cooper Square Committee @CooperSq]

By one estimate, the values of multifamily properties increased between 400% and 600% in 2000-2018 & fed a boom of real estate speculation, driving up rents, pushing out longtime residents, and creating “super-gentrified” islands of wealth.
https://t.co/SrsLVNxAIj

[LISC Research @LISCResearch]

According to Julia Duranti-Martínez… the report “reinforces what tenant leaders have been saying…which is that [taking out ever-increasing debt] is a strategy for extracting profits from buildings, not for investing in their upkeep.”
https://t.co/NWOsj7d5k9 via @shelterforce

[LISC Research @LISCResearch]

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[LISC Research @LISCResearch]

Edward Garcia @northwestbronx on sources of investment for #socialhousing “hospitals need to invest in the things that keep people healthy.”

[LISC Research @LISCResearch]

Niani Taylor @EastNewYorkCLT on scaling CLTs: “people said the airplane couldn’t exist before it happened.” @PeoplesForumNYC #socialhousing event.