Metro IAF affiliates in metropolitan New York, metropolitan Baltimore and Washington, metropolitan Chicago, statewide in North Carolina, and in greater Boston have been engaging leaders who are seniors in a wide range of ways and initiating action on a broad set of issues, including: senior housing preservation and construction, expanding home health care options for seniors, identifying cost savings for seniors in the context of the implementation of health reform, and preserving and strengthening social security.

Metro IAF organizing has resulting in hundreds of millions of dollars in investment in neighborhoods that would otherwise be neglected -- and the results can be seen in new streets, new schools, new parks, new community centers, and new public spaces.

Metro IAF's education victories range from launching high-performing schools to developing system-wide afterschool programs that transform educational outcomes for young people.

Through the "10 Percent is Enough" campaign (www.10PercentIsEnough.org), Metro IAF organizations have led the national call for curbs on usurious interest rates in lending.  Our individual organizations have created nationally-recognized financial literacy programs, pushed big banks to re-invest in the communities devastated by foreclosure, and moved public money out of the worst-offending financial institutions.

Metro IAF's Baltimore affiliate launched the international Living Wage movement with the world's first living wage ordinance in 1994, which has since spread to over 200 cities globally.

Through the nationally-recognized Nehemiah Homes initiative, Metro IAF affiliates have built over 6000 affordable homes in the South Bronx, East Brooklyn, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Washington, DC.  Our work in other states has capitalized hundreds of millions of dollars in new affordable housing development.