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Since the banking crisis of 2008, major lenders have become much more cautious about giving out loans. That’s left many people who have low or no credit in a deep financial hole. So one local group decided to re-invent an old concept—the lending circle: Members of a community deposit money into a common pool; then they take turns using that money to start businesses, pay off bills, and send their children to college. Reporter Alexa Vaughn went to see how it works.
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KALW 91.7FM:
June 6, 2011
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ALEXA VAUGHN: Alicia Villanueva is washing dishes in a narrow kitchen, while just a few feet away her eldest son Pedro is playing a guitar on his bed.
The small Berkeley apartment is a tight fit for Alicia’s family of five, but that doesn’t distract them from making big plans outside of it. Ten years after emigrating from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, 18-year-old Pedro is finishing up his first year at SF State and Alicia is launching her own tamale business.
ALICIA VILLANUEVA: You know everybody comes to this blessed beautiful country to follow their dreams, our dreams, no? And get a better life for your kids.
About this time last year though, it looked like the family might not even get to keep the apartment. Alicia and her husband ran a delivery business which was hit hard by the recession.
ALICIA VILLANUEVA: We were doing really good. But then October, it start our nightmare.
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