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How to Recharge a Nonprofit-Led Affordable Housing Delivery System

NonProfit Quarterly

Here it is important to understand that nonprofits have traditionally focused on the housing aftermarket—the platforms, processes, public policy, and market activity that brings distressed and defaulted mortgaged property back to market. Currently, about 60 percent of housing stock comprises single-family homes constructed before 1980.

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??How Community-Based Public Space Can Build Civic Trust: Lessons from Akron

NonProfit Quarterly

In the 1960s, the construction of interstate highway I-76 and state Route 59 disconnected Summit Lake from the rest of Akron. All these popular amenities and activities were conceived and constructed in close collaboration with residents. Summit Lake welcomes people into nature with activities like weekly guided canoe trips.

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Community Development Must Center Power Building: A San Francisco Story

NonProfit Quarterly

A committee of tenants, including some rent strike leaders, conducted physical inspections of the buildings’ infrastructure with our housing construction manager. It has a large and active board and an even larger activist core. And it has made all the difference in avoiding displacement.

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Whose Capital? Our Capital! The Power of Workers’ Pensions for the Common Good

NonProfit Quarterly

million active working members and 12 million public employee retirees, 5 because many pension funds are “underfunded.” As unions head into bargaining, they should have fully developed proposals geared to moving pension money away from harmful investments and into good community ones. Connecting to broader fights and movements.

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Housing and Climate: Funding Holistic Solutions

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FHO, which centers racial equity in cross-sector efforts to address the systemic causes of housing insecurity, is now actively searching out ways to invest in housing and climate justice. In this article, I talk about collective actions that funders can take to holistically address climate-related impacts on housing justice.

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“Educational Purposes”: Nonprofit Land as a Vital Site of Struggle

NonProfit Quarterly

4 Once on Prospect, I was awash in a sea of excitement and activity as over 150 residents, labor activists, students, and onlookers buzzed about, handing out food and water, playing with young children, stewarding informational tables, dancing to the music, and finishing a massive art project that immediately drew my attention.

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Tenants Nationwide Call for Social Housing Now!

NonProfit Quarterly

Social housing must first serve and prioritize those most excluded by for-profit developers and landlords. New construction is often geared at luxury buyers, even though poorer renter households—of whom over 11 million qualify as “extremely low income” in government classifications—have the greatest housing needs.