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How Limited Equity Co-ops Can Sustain Affordable Homeownership

NonProfit Quarterly

Additionally, millions of Americans reside in manufactured housing communities, often called mobile home parks, which do provide affordable housing. This mechanism permits the seller to collect a modest increase in value while ensuring affordability to future buyers.

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The Next Generation of Mutualism

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Hemstreet went on to work with local cooperatives, civic groups, manufacturers, nonprofits, and the local Rotary Clubthe other mutualists in her areato launch Morgantons Industrial Commons, a nonprofit economic-development project that created the Carolina Textile District and four additional community-owned organizations.

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How Resident-Owned Communities Can Create Mass Affordable Homeownership

NonProfit Quarterly

An underappreciated tool for closing this gap—potentially benefitting millions of US households—involves resident-owned manufactured housing communities. A Freddie Mac Multifamily survey conducted in 2019 estimated 45,000 manufactured housing communities operating across the United States.

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Housing Innovation in Rural America

NonProfit Quarterly

Coproduced by Partners for Rural Transformation , a coalition of six regional community development financial institutions, and NPQ , authors highlight efforts to address multi-generational poverty in Appalachia, the rural West, Indian Country, South Texas, and the Mississippi Delta. A single modular unit or “box” is 288 square feet.

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Big Announcement! THE Social Media Training Academy and Member Community for Business is Here!

Pam Moore

Listen to the audio podcast here-> Big Announcement Social Media Training Academy and Member Community. Note: If you listen to the podcast you will be provided a coupon code with extra special savings + free 30 minute consultation ($250 value!). 1+ million connections across social, we walk the walk! million downloads to date.

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Don’t Sell Your Brand’s Soul to the Facebook News Feed Algorithm and Vanity Metrics

Pam Moore

What about the LED lighting brands, oil and gas, manufacturing, government regulated, healthcare and the hundreds of other industries, products and services that simply are not something we all go to Facebook to talk about? What is your core value proposition? He liked the photos with our family, team and communities we serve.

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Black Organizers in Boston’s Roxbury Neighborhood Provide a Path Forward

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Drew Katz Black Bostonian communities citywide have more than just something to say for themselves: their economies are building institutions that prioritize asset-based community development and are creating the foundations for a local solidarity economy.

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