The Affordable Housing Leverage Fund (AHLF) is a partnership between the City of Detroit Housing & Revitalization Department,, the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), and the Michigan State Housing Development Authority (MSHDA) to provide affordable housing developers and owners with streamlined access to financial tools that are specifically designed to address housing challenges in Detroit neighborhoods. AHLF is expected to deploy $250 million into the preservation of 10,000 units of existing affordable housing and the development of 2,000 units of new affordable housing. View Website

This guarantee backs a loan provided by the Northern Trust company to facilitate a New Markets Tax Credit transaction to finance the construction of an early childhood education center on the Marygrove campus. In addition, Kresge will provide certain guarantees to the New Markets Tax Credit Lenders (Cinnaire, Capital Impact Partners, and McCormick Baron Salazar) to cover construction completion; loan-interest payments; and costs of default. View Website

This program-related investment loan supported Community Reinvestment Fund's efforts to extend Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) Loan application support and oversight to Detroit-area nonprofits. The PPP is a newly created loan guarantee program funded through the 2020 CARES Act. View Website

This 15-month guarantee will permit the Marygrove Conservancy to obtain an unsecured line of credit of up to $3 million from IFF, a community development financial institution working in the Midwest, to serve as a bridge to cover the initial capital payments for construction of a new early childhood center, part of the cradle-to-career campus at Marygrove.   View Website

East Jefferson Development Company (EJDevCo) is a for-profit development subsidiary of Jefferson-East Inc. All revenues from EJDevCo are donated back to Jefferson East Inc. to support its ongoing neighborhood revitalization work. This program-related equity investment will provide patient equity to EJDevCo to acquire key vacant and blight buildings in the Jefferson Chalmers neighborhood, all of which are part of a larger development finance plan known as a Targeted-Redevelopment Area. This locally designated tax-increment finance district composes a cluster of parcels eligible under the Michigan Brownfield Redevelopment Finance Act. The tax capture from the TRA can be used for public-area improvements and support for predevelopment activities such as environmental assessments and remediation. This will be the first active TRA in the state of Michigan. View Website

The community development financial institution assists in revitalizing economically distressed areas of Detroit by providing loans and technical assistance to small-business owners, developers, building owners and contractors. This guarantee supported the second-round funding for the Detroit Entrepreneurs of Color Fund. Though the proposed expansion, DDF sought to increase the fund’s total capacity to at least $19 million. The goal of the EOC Fund is to provide loans between $25,000 and $150,000 to 300 businesses owned by people of color or employing predominantly people of color based in Detroit.   View Website

CRF is a CDFI servicer for nontraditional loan portfolios that include small business loans, residential mortgages and financing for community facilities. This guarantee supports Detroit Home Mortgage 2,0, a mortgage product directed at minority developers who are expected to acquire and rehabilitate multiple properties in the city of Detroit. View Website

Eastern Market has supplied Detroit-area residents with fresh food since 1891 and currently draws more than 2 million market visitors annually. The Market has an ambitious plan to both expand and preserve its historic food-centered economy. Our program-related investment loan will support the first round of acquisition and facilitate the relocation of two existing production businesses from the old market into the new district. View Website

Marygrove College is a 90-year-old private Catholic school in Northwest Detroit with a mission to train the next generation of urban leaders. This program-related investment allowed Marygrove to repay a loan from Wayne County through the federal Neighborhood Stabilization Program to acquire and rehabilitate the Immaculata building for use as a community facility.  View Website

A CDFI that works to create opportunities for low and moderate-income people through fit, affordable housing in diverse, thriving communities. This loan will support equitable and inclusive revitalization efforts in Detroit's Jefferson-Chalmers neighborhood. View Website

This guarantee supports the Detroit Neighborhoods Fund, which invests in projects that accelerate opportunity, job growth, density and a higher quality of life for all local residents. The fund provides loans to multifamily residential, mixed use and healthy food retail real estate projects in Midtown, the greater Woodward Corridor (New Center, North End and Eastern Market) and other specifically identified distressed Detroit neighborhoods. JP Morgan Chase modeled the fund after the Woodward Corridor Investment Fund, of which Kresge was the key architect, demonstrating the foundation’s ongoing influence on real estate development and finance in the city. View Website

The Michigan Good Food Fund (MGFF) is a public-private partnership fund created to finance healthy food production, distribution, processing and retail projects that benefit underserved communities throughout Michigan. It is designed to provide flexible capital and grant investments to healthy food enterprises often overlooked by traditional financial institutions. MGFF also offers business assistance to help entrepreneurs grow their ventures and prepare for financing. View Website

This loan allows IFF to provide capital to high-quality early childhood centers in Southeast Michigan and other community facilities. Sixty percent of the funds are to be spent in Detroit. This loan supports a new initiative, KEYS (Kresge Early Years for Success): Detroit, which seeks to improve the early childhood system in Detroit and ensure all children are ready for kindergarten. IFF opened its Detroit office in 2014 and to date has made more than $10 million in loans to a range of community facilities. View Website

This loan guarantee to the community development financial institution Invest Detroit supports a $5 million loan from Goldman Sachs Group Inc., the private investment bank. That capital is being used to make loans to small-business borrowers in underserved areas of Detroit, advancing the community’s revitalization. View Website

Calvert is a community development financial institution that connects investors to the causes they care about. Calvert is among the partners in the Kresge-supported Woodward Corridor Investment Fund. This guarantee helps launch that fund, a $30.25 million fund designed to support Detroit’s revitalization by financing projects that are mixed-use, mixed income, transit-oriented and promote density, diversity, vibrancy and walkability in the city’s core. View Website

Capital Impact Partners, a certified nonprofit community development financial institution, convened local and national partners to launch the Woodward Corridor Investment Fund. This investment helps launch the fund, a $30.25 million fund designed to support Detroit’s revitalization by financing projects that are mixed-use, mixed income, transit-oriented and promote density, diversity, vibrancy and walkability in the city’s core. View Website