# Professor Jeanne Calderon's joint research with Stern guest lecturer Gary Friedland on the use of EB-5 capital is featured

1 Faculty News August 26, 2015 ![SF Weekly logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/SF-Weekly_logo.jpg?itok=qMme4fOk)>

Excerpt from [SF Weekly](http://www.sfweekly.com/sanfrancisco/news-san-francisco-eb-5-immigration-tenderloin-development-real-estate-investment/Content?oid=3981408) -- "For real estate developers, EB-5 is a great deal. Where a traditional financier might demand a significant return on investment, an EB-5 investor gets his money's worth courtesy of the US government. Earning a return is secondary, and both the Securities Exchange Commission and an academic study by the NYU Stern Center for Real Estate Finance Research have found that EB-5 investors accept lower interest rates on their investments than they would if the green card weren't offered."

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