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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. At one point, the team learned that residents feared the lake because overgrown vegetation made it unclear where the water began, and parents worried that their children might drown.

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Housing and Climate: Funding Holistic Solutions

Stanford Social Innovation Review

using non-toxic building materials that were manufactured, transported, and constructed using low-carbon, non-polluting methods and materials); reducing energy consumption and pollution; and using integrative design , which incorporates sustainability up front and promotes good health and livability throughout the building’s life cycle.

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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

The home now serves as transitional housing for mothers and children. Social housing must first serve and prioritize those most excluded by for-profit developers and landlords. The group, called Moms 4 Housing , won the property’s transfer to a local community land trust. Social Housing for Whom? Housing is expensive to build.

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Project 2025: What Does It Mean for Racial and Economic Justice?

NonProfit Quarterly

One other matter: Head Start, a pre-kindergarten program that enrolls over 850,000 children a year , is housed in the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS). Housing: The Project 2025 chapter on housing is authored by a familiar name, none other than the former US Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Ben Carson.