On my firm's part, we act as an advisor to investors. We work with them to help mobilize their capital. In some cases what we are looking for is a way to creatively deploy any type of revenues that would come out of these initiatives. In the example that I offered, the affordable housing fund called the resilient communities fund, that fund is redirecting the fees associated with affordable housing into an endowment fund, which is then used to finance affordable housing. Think of brokerage fees or origination fees that banks would pay, or in some cases even legal fees that would be paid in the transaction. Those are effectively earned revenue for those entities, but a portion of those revenues can be diverted into the bridging of the affordability gap for people who move into those units.
On March 10th, 2015. See this statement in context.