A public bank could make affordable housing more affordable

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The push for a public bank has been in the works for nearly a decade. Interest in a public bank mounted during the Occupy Wall Street movement, when activists called for pulling The City’s money out of Wall Street banks. This led to then-Supervisor John Avalos commissioning the first study out of City Hall on a public bank in 2011.

Published by Sasha Perigo, San Francisco Examiner on November 17th, 2019.

BiSHoPFebruary 5, 2020