Assignment 2

 

RED 8030—LISC

Type your answers to proposed questions. Also please give web links to your local org as well as the project you looked at.

You will have to go beyond the simple LISC website to get all the information.

 

 

For this assignment, you are to take an in depth look at LISC (Local Initiatives Support Corporation) which is a major vehicle community development and affordable housing in may communities throughout the US (http://www.lisc.org). LISC works closely with the community, government, and developers to make their communities stronger. This is a three-part assignment:

 

Part 1: You are to examine the LISC website and describe what their Mission Statement is.

Secondly how they promote Affordable Housing: Priorities, Products and Services,

Veteran Housing, National Equity Fund, Housing Stabilization Fund, Community

Development Trust, etc.

 

Part 2: Pick one local community LISC organization and tell me their Mission, how they impact

the community, and how they work with developers.

 

Part 3: Pick one affordable housing or community development project that your (the one you

picked to look at in Part 2) local chapter was involved in. Tell me about that project: what

was it, who was involved; who did it look to help; who were the partners; was there a public private partnership  (p3)

component and if so what was the private sector’s role in it; and what were the outcomes

to the community.