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Investors, issuers and communities are leveraging municipal bond markets to disrupt systemic inequities. ImpactAlpha is featuring these stories with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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Los Angeles tries to show how affordable housing can be built more quickly and cheaply
It’s the financing, stupid. In Los Angeles, a novel mechanism that is expected to finance the construction of more than 1,500 units of …
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KeyBanc backs $46.5 million bond for tribally-owned healthcare facilities
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Kataly Foundation charts an equitable bond strategy as it looks to spend out its reserves
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University of Wisconsin Hospitals raises $28 million bond to boost health access and slash carbon emissions
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Underserved communities get creative in financing to upgrade water infrastructure
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Water, long overlooked, is increasingly investable
For something that underpins virtually every aspect of our lives, water has for too long been “out of sight, out of mind” when …
How green banks are blending finance for community infrastructure and greenhouse gas reduction
In New Orleans, the city’s housing finance agency has become a “green bank” to underwrite community solar, water treatment projects, and resilience hubs. …
The arbitrage opportunity in high-impact municipal bonds
ImpactAlpha, Dec. 15 – The $4 trillion muni market is so big that small movements in the pricing of bonds can mean shifts of …
Connecting supply and demand for racial equity strategies in muni markets
ImpactAlpha, Jun. 22 – Even as some politicians ramp up anti-ESG rhetoric, asset owners and allocators are signaling an appetite for investment strategies …
Engaging racial-equity risks and opportunities in municipal finance
ImpactAlpha, Feb. 9 – The fatal beating by police of Tyre Nichols in Memphis last month exposed risks to the city’s finances that have …
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Three narratives investors should help rewrite around government subsidies, policies and programs
Editors note: This article is part of a partnership between ImpactAlpha and Mission Investors Exchange (MIE) to present new ideas and perspectives in …
How local governments are financing climate action without federal funding
The need for climate action is becoming impossible to ignore as the frequency and severity of natural disasters accelerates. A global goal to …
Chicago turns to low-cost municipal bonds to ‘get the lead out’ of its water pipes
Last month, the city of Chicago made a meaningful downpayment on changing the health trajectory for hundreds of thousands of children and women …
Adapting ‘pooled loan funds’ to scale financing for greenhouse gas reduction projects
Editor’s Note: Community Finance Brief is a newsletter from Matt Posner of Court Street Group, occasionally syndicated on ImpactAlpha. In the fight against …
Why deep reflection is a prerequisite when investing for justice
Over the course of this six-part series on how and why Kataly is designing our investment strategy to divest from Wall Street, we …
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