Healthcare Anchor Network (HAN) and the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) are dedicated to helping institutions leverage their financial resources to invest in key social drivers of health to create resilient local communities. Over the past seven years, LISC has partnered with 20 HAN members on initiatives that promote economic development and community resilience. HAN members have deployed $107 million through LISC, including $84 million in loans and $23 million in grants, to help finance affordable housing, small business lending, real estate development, local economic development strategies, and community wealth building. These efforts have impacted communities in 23 of LISC’s local markets.
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How LISC & Healthcare Anchor Network Members Are Promoting Community Resiliency: Affordable Housing
Social and economic factors—including access to quality housing and jobs, and opportunities to start and grow a business—shape the health and well-being of communities. Healthcare Anchor Network (HAN) and the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) are dedicated to helping institutions leverage their financial resources to invest in these social drivers of health to create resilient communities. This is the first of a two-part series highlighting how HAN members are partnering with LISC to invest in affordable housing and economic development.
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Rochelle, an M Health Fairview patient in Minnesota, was struggling to manage all of her different medications. Her doctors saw that her condition could be improved with access to fresh foods, and so they referred her to the VeggieRx program. Through VeggieRx, Rochelle received fresh produce and was able to not only improve her own […]
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When coronavirus caused over 1.5 million people in Ohio to file for unemployment benefits, many did not have a computer or access to the internet in order to apply for benefits. “Several residents came to my house to have me walk them through getting unemployment because they didn’t have a computer, and they didn’t know how to use the internet,” said Jones Home Neighbor Association President Rodney Lewallen.
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