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Hair, Nails, and Defending the Progressive State

By David Langlieb Here’s a challenge I’d put some money behind: provide me with a compelling, substantive public interest-based reason—for why it takes 1,250 hours of training to become a licensed barber in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Or why a Pennsylvania...

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Lessons From St. Louis

By David Langlieb In 1947, renowned Philadelphia planner Ed Bacon presented a vision for the city's future at the Better Philadelphia Exhibition, an innovative effort to engage the public in the city’s postwar development. Bacon organized the exhibition with...

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On Land and Liberty: Tyler v. Hennepin County

By David Langlieb At the Philadelphia Accelerator Fund, part of our mission is to encourage homeownership by financing affordable for-sale housing. The American tradition, at least in an aspirational sense, is to promote property ownership as a way for the citizenry...

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Where Are the Customers’ Yachts?

Eighty-Five Years Later and They Still Don’t Exist By David Langlieb Finance is a peculiar business, and we at the Philadelphia Accelerator Fund do not pretend to understand more than we do. Like most, we were surprised and unnerved by the recent Silicon Valley Bank...

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The Limits of Credit Reporting

Written by David Langlieb Like most lenders, the Philadelphia Accelerator Fund typically requires that our borrowers personally guarantee our loans. While we don’t look forward to enforcing these personal guarantees and certainly don’t like taking borrowers to court,...

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How Developers Can Support Communities

Developers have access to power that can have an immense effect on the neighborhoods. All too often their impact is negative, displacing residents, closing community stalwarts, or causing rapid gentrification. It does not have to be this way! Here are a few...

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