LISC Designates $25 Million Funds For Obama Administration\'s \"Better Building Challenge\"

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LISC Designates $25 Million Funds For Obama Administration\'s \"Better Building Challenge\"

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Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) supports the Obama Administration's "Better Building Challenge" with a $25 million pledge to help multifamily affordable housing owners reduce their energy consumption by 20 percent over the next decade.

Larry Oaks, LISC's vice president for housing, claims, "For LISC, this program is about much more than a sense of environmental idealism. It's about giving low-income people the chance to build stronger, healthier futures."

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