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A rare new credit union embodies the original, long-forgotten vision for community development finance.

Senior Economics Correspondent Oscar Perry Abello talks with Angela Dowell, chief financial officer at Chicago Community Loan Fund, about what it takes for lenders to get more creative and take on projects by new or emerging developers or community-ownership models that can be perceived as riskier.

Beneficial State Bank just recieved a massive investment from the U.S. Treasury under the Emergency Capital Investment Program. How will the new federal funds change these banks' ability to reach more people?

Watch Senior Economics Correspondent Oscar Perry Abello in conversation with Devin Culbertson, VP of Innovative Finance at Grounded Solutions — the latest in Next City’s Bottom Line Conversations webinar series. Community land trusts, or other forms of community-owned and controlled real estate, continue to make incremental progress across the country. The model has also moved beyond housing or agriculture in acquiring larger, more complicated commercial and cultural projects. As we discussed back in March with Saki Bailey of the San Francisco Community Land Trust, it’s now p...

Watch Senior Economics Correspondent Oscar Perry Abello in conversation with Devin Culbertson, VP of Innovative Finance at Grounded Solutions — the latest in Next City’s Bottom Line Conversations webinar series. Community land trusts, or other forms of community-owned and controlled real estate, continue to make incremental progress across the country. The model has also moved beyond housing or agriculture in acquiring larger, more complicated commercial and cultural projects. As we discussed back in March with Saki Bailey of the San Francisco Community Land Trust, it’s now p...