by Gina | Jan 23, 2025 | Uncategorized
By David Langlieb We’re now into our third full year of lending at the Philadelphia Accelerator Fund, and we’ve developed a kind of mantra for allocating our limited resources: maximum units of housing at the most economically viable affordability. It’s not catchy,...
by David Langlieb | Apr 29, 2024 | Uncategorized
By David Langlieb Have the robots taken over yet? Pardon my skepticism, but I turned 40 last year and find myself settling into a curmudgeonly distrust of new technology. I’m not a Luddite, but the truth is I’ve been temperamentally incredulous since second or third...
by David Langlieb | Nov 10, 2023 | Uncategorized
By David Langlieb Consider the following hypothetical – I own a casino with a custom-made roulette wheel that has 50 pockets on it, numbered 1 through 50. I offer you this opportunity: ‘invest’ a million dollars with me on a single spin, and if the ball lands on any...
by David Langlieb | Oct 10, 2023 | Uncategorized
By David Langlieb As Reinhold Niebuhr’s serenity prayer advises, it is wise to accept the things we cannot change. The rub is that what can’t change is often unclear. At the Philadelphia Accelerator Fund (PAF), we’ve spent many restless hours contemplating Niebuhr’s...
by David Langlieb | Aug 30, 2023 | Uncategorized
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...
by David Langlieb | Jul 20, 2023 | Uncategorized
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...
