A major hospital chain in the western US is helping to build more affordable housing for low-income residents.
Intermountain Health, which has 33 hospitals and 385 clinics in seven states, has provided $110 million in loans and other investments for affordable housing, most of it to developers of affordable housing when conventional financing is not available or affordable, reports the Salt Lake Tribune.
The nonprofit system's most recent loan of $4 million will fund a new, 247-unit rental property that will help serve people with low incomes, seniors, farmworkers, formerly unhoused people, and people with special needs.
"We view safe, healthy, and affordable housing as a prerequisite to achieving good health and are happy to support its development in the communities we serve," says Nicholas Fritz, Intermountain's Impact Investing director.
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