Economic Opportunity

California housing costs make the state an expensive place to call home. It’s such a fundamental part of California life it almost feels silly to say. Along with good weather,…

LISC Fund Management, LLC (LFM) and partners are pleased to announce the launch of the Cleveland Housing Investment Fund, made possible by a transformative $18 million grant commitment from the…

There is a clear need to advance a more inclusive economic future for rural America, which accounts for 85% of the nation’s persistently poor counties. This imperative for inclusive rural development,…

More than 40 million Americans, including both renters and homeowners, are struggling to afford housing costs. In a recent poll, most registered voters in five key battleground states reported that addressing housing…

Domonique Tomlinson didn’t know much about the Shore Acres neighborhood of St. Petersburg, Florida, when she bought a house here four years ago, but she learned quickly about the repeated flooding…

Oregon’s Department of Justice gave few indications Tuesday it is ready to change its approach to payouts for people wrongfully convicted of crimes, at least in the near future. Lawmakers…

Volunteering used to be a mainstay of U.S. culture. But in recent years, there has been a decline in volunteering. Giving back to their community hasn’t played as big a…

During a recent public appearance, Cook County Public Defender Sharone Mitchell recalled the early days of working to pass, defend and then implement Illinois’ historic bail reform law amid intense…

In July, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) limited the rates that prison telecommunications companies can charge for phone and video calling services in prisons and jails. Historically, those prison phone rates…

Washington is sitting on millions of dollars collected from incarcerated people for phone calls and other fees — money that is kept in the Incarcerated Individual Betterment Fund and that…

The housing and affordability crisis is getting worse, and more people around the country are facing the grim reality of homelessness and the criminalization that accompanies it. Rather than treating…

Money is power in the United States, and mass incarceration plays a major role in determining who can wield power and who can’t. As we’ve noted repeatedly over the years,…