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Can Cities Be the Source of Scalable Innovations?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Through its iconic mobile showers, the San Francisco nonprofit LavaMae has found new ways to serve the homeless in the absence of more radical reforms of affordable housing. From Experimentation to Diffusion of Urban Innovations The innovative role of dynamic cities has been referred to as government by experiment.

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Building Social Housing from the Ground Up: Grassroots Perspectives

NonProfit Quarterly

Most government housing funding is spent on subsidizing mortgages—primarily for the well-to-do. Now, most government housing funding is spent on subsidizing mortgages —primarily for the well-to-do—and residential land is zoned for single-family homes and suburban sprawl.

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Faith Communities and Affordable Housing: Challenges and Opportunities

NonProfit Quarterly

Policymakers and advocates say: Government must expedite the redevelopment of underutilized church property for affordable housing. Limited housing stock impacts families by raising their housing costs to unaffordable levels, forcing people to move or face homelessness. Society says: The housing problem could be solved!

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Centering Racial Justice in the Fight for Housing Justice

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Hard-wired into systems and programs at all levels of government and the private sector, these policies bolstered white Americans’ stability, wealth, and access to opportunity while concentrating the effects of segregation, displacement, destabilization, gentrification, and poverty on BIPOC populations.

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Social Housing: How a New Generation of Activists Are Reinventing Housing

NonProfit Quarterly

Some point to large-scale, government-run rental housing, while others also explicitly include housing cooperatives and community land trusts. But in the end, governments dragged their feet and promised change stayed on the drawing board. But that hasn’t stopped movements from pushing. In an era that we call Social Housing 1.0,

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What Is a Community Development Corporation?

NonProfit Quarterly

Beginning in the 1950s and 1960s, poor communities and people of color stood up to the federal government and the excesses of urban renewal , which had bulldozed many poor communities, especially communities of color. They blocked the construction of highways. They provide homes for the homeless.

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How to Make Guaranteed Income Work: Ten Lessons from Newark, New Jersey

NonProfit Quarterly

In 2021, San Francisco launched a six-month pilot program, called Miracle Money , which distributed $500 a month to 15 people experiencing homelessness in the city. These components can be employed through a nonprofit organization or city government. The program distributes $1,000 a month to 100 Black mothers in Jackson, Mississippi.