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The Municipality of Anchorage has announced that the first Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (C-PACE) loan has closed between RIM Investments and Nuveen Green Capital for a $680,000 retrofit of a four-story building. This marks the city and state's first C-PACE financing, which is used to fund clean energy measures in commercial real estate projects.

U.S. Department of Agriculture announced a $75M investment in critical infrastructure improvements that will ensure thousands of rural people in Greenbrier County, WV have clean drinking water and sanitary wastewater systems for years to come. The money will fund two projects to upgrade aging, failing water infrastructure.

Massachusetts' new cannabis equity law is drawing praise from advocates who say it will help ease barriers to entry for aspiring cannabis business owners from marginalized communities and foster more equity within the state's multi-billion dollar industry.

Equitable School Revolving Fund (ESRF) announced that it has closed over $230 million of A-rated "Social Bonds" to support its mission to provide affordable facilities access to high-performing, high-impact public charter schools across the U.S.

the U.S. Department of the Treasury announced the approval of an additional group of five states under the American Rescue Plan's Coronavirus Capital Projects Fund (CPF): Connecticut, Indiana, Nebraska, North Dakota, and Arkansas. The CPF provides $10B to fund critical capital projects that enable work, education, and health monitoring in response to the public health emergency.

The city of Cleveland unveiled $102.5 million in new COVID-19 stimulus funding, with nearly half of that going to "housing for all." The proposed housing policies include $35 million to incentivize public/private housing, $10 million in home repair funds and $5 million for a revolving loan pool for small and minority contractors to build in underserved neighborhoods.

Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy signed House Bill 298 (HB 298) establishing the Alaska Food Strategy Task Force with the goal of improving food security for the long-term benefit of Alaska's communities, economy, and environment. The bill establishes forgivable loan programs for farm development and improvement and meat processing facilities.

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