Chrystie, director of communications at the Office of Housing and Community Development told the Daily News.

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Since the 1960s, philanthropic, public, and private investments in the community development industry have produced astonishing returns: millions of affordable housing units built and the development of an extraordinary number of high-performing local, regional, and national nonprofit organizations.

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Community development financial institutions (CDFIs) and Low Income Housing and New Markets Tax Credits engage markets at scale.

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