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The $2 million in federal money recently handed to an obscure but vital community lending nonprofit couldn't have come at a better time, its chief says.
The Hartford Community Loan Fund (HCLF) is a local credit portal responsible for sparing and repairing hundreds of blighted city homes, and saving dozens more property owners from losing theirs to unpaid taxes.