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Countering Criminalization: The Vital Role of Organizing Against Homelessness

NonProfit Quarterly

A recent US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) report identified 771,000 homeless people in January 2024, a record number that was 18 percent higher than the previous year, which in turn marked a 12 percent increase over 2022. Meanwhile, public policy failed to address the economic drivers of poverty.

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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. billion in development activity.

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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. 18 As AFSCME Local 3299 lays it out: B.