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Limited Equity Housing Cooperatives: Why They’re a Solution for Our Times

NonProfit Quarterly

Housing co-ops have a board of directors composed of member-residents which is responsible for overseeing the management of the property and planning for future renovations, much like a homeowner association. Laws and regulations supporting LEHCs vary from state to state and country to country.

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The Playbook: How to Organize and Stop Megaprojects

NonProfit Quarterly

Some of our allies were: Deborah Taylor, a member of Southside Together Organizing for Power (STOP) and a leader with the Lake Park East Tenants Association Karen Lewis, then president of the Caucus of Rank-and-File Educators (CORE ), soon to become the president of the Chicago Teachers Union Willie J.R.

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Movements Are Leading the Way: Reenvisioning and Redesigning Laws and Governance for a Just Energy Utility Transition

NonProfit Quarterly

Billions of dollars in energy infrastructure and its associated profits are no longer hoarded by a handful of wealthy investors, utility executives, and shareholders; instead, they are deployed for shared prosperity to eliminate the racial wealth divide and to create meaningful, joyous, living-wage work for those formerly excluded from the economy.

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Okinawa and the Link Between Socioeconomic Disparities and Colonialism in Japan

Stanford Social Innovation Review

It also inadvertently contributes to the association between Okinawa's poverty and local people's values and behaviors. Toward Equity and Self-Determination In his paper, “ A Monitoring Theory of the Underclass ,” Harvard Law School Professor J. Relocation of the bases has also remained out of reach.

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Tenant Organizers Are Fighting a Forever War

NonProfit Quarterly

Because of all the work that’s going on citywide, tenant associations and our city council decided to make a local ordinance that protected the right to organize, and it passed through our city council. It was on the news a lot because one of the things that it impacted was rest breaks for construction workers.

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Policies for Housing With Heart

Stanford Social Innovation Review

As a result, 24 percent of seniors living in the US are classified as socially isolated, which is associated with an approximately 50 percent increased risk of developing dementia, a 32 percent increased risk of stroke, a 68 percent increased risk of hospitalization, and 57 percent increased risk of emergency department visits.

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Minding the Gaps: Neuroethics, AI, and Depression

NonProfit Quarterly

3 By law, these must remain anonymous when used. Just three years ago, the American Psychiatric Association admitted to a history replete with discrimination, abusive experimentation, and victimization of BIPOC communities in the name of scientific evidence. 10 Only 35.1 19 Scientific racism is still rife in the United States.