This Week in Impact
This Week in Impact
Impact Alpha
Shaping the AI algorithm + innovative finance for local infrastructure projects
22 minutes Posted Feb 20, 2026 at 11:00 am.
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: Highlights from this week’s Agents of Impact Call on Shaping the Algorithm for good AI; how regional housing finance agencies in California are leveraging public funding to crowd private capital into affordable housing
; and the emergence of local guarantee facilities for local investors in infrastructure in Africa and Asia
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Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: Highlights from this week’s Agents of Impact Call on Shaping the Algorithm for good AI; how regional housing finance agencies in California are leveraging public funding to crowd private capital into affordable housing (12:20); and the emergence of local guarantee facilities for local investors in infrastructure in Africa and Asia (17:20).Story links:⁠Call roundup⁠“⁠Building regional engines for affordable housing in California⁠,” by Andrew Fremier, Ryan Johnson and Cody Petterson“⁠Local guarantees for local investors in infrastructure projects in Africa and Asia⁠,” by Lucy Ngige