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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. The city’s Black business district was devastated.

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Community Development Must Center Power Building: A San Francisco Story

NonProfit Quarterly

The origin of the tenant organizing movement in San Francisco’s Chinatown can, in fact, be traced back to one of these organizations, the Ping Yuen Residents Improvement Association (PYRIA) , which was founded in 1967 to improve conditions in Chinatown’s public housing complexes.

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Fisheries and Stewardship: Lessons from Native Hawaiian Aquaculture

NonProfit Quarterly

Hawaiian innovation is reflected in the variety of loko i‘a design and construction methods, demonstrating an unparalleled understanding of engineering, hydrology, ecology, biology, and agriculture managed holistically within watershed-scale land divisions called ahupua‘a. Stannard, American Anthropological Association 15, no.

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How Mobile Home Owners Organize for Land Ownership and Climate Resiliency

NonProfit Quarterly

A Changing Reputation Modular home construction has existed in some form for over a century. Over the years, the mobile home has acquired a less desirable reputation, a stigma that the homes are cheaply made or associated with poverty. And the average construction cost of a manufactured home is just $90,000.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

By investing billions in affordable housing, we can start to address the growing housing crisis and help workers acquire homes, thereby further building their retirement security while creating construction jobs and stimulating local economies. This is over one-fifth (21.4 percent) of US gross domestic product.

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Tenants Nationwide Call for Social Housing Now!

NonProfit Quarterly

It is democratically managed through the input of resident associations, tenant unions, and surrounding communities. Social housing must first serve and prioritize those most excluded by for-profit developers and landlords. Social housing is publicly owned or under democratic community control. Social Housing for Whom?