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How to Recharge a Nonprofit-Led Affordable Housing Delivery System

NonProfit Quarterly

To achieve this requires a deeper understanding of the current housing crisis and how nonprofits can, with policy support, implement effective solutions. A Nonprofit Solution Before the surge in private equity interest in the single-family housing market, nonprofits were the quiet pistons in the engine of affordable homeownership.

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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

Image Credit: Yuet Lam-Tsang Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2023 issue, “Movement Economies: Making Our Vision a Collective Reality.” At the height of the pandemic, I was swept up in a titanic battle being waged over the right to a city. 1 That city was New Haven, Connecticut.

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Federal Workers Organize to Counter “Deferred Resignation” Memo

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Chelsea Bland In the wake of a January 28 government memo titled Fork in the Road encouraging federal workers to resign their positions, and mounting warnings of mass layoffs (including the threat to lay off over 10,000 US Agency for International Development workers ), unions and their members are increasingly going public.

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Tenants Nationwide Call for Social Housing Now!

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Seattle City Council on Wikimedia Commons Across the country, renters and unhoused people are organizing to demand that all levels of government address the nation’s housing crisis. It is democratically managed through the input of resident associations, tenant unions, and surrounding communities.