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Oppose HB 391: Fees on Nonprofit Property

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in House Taxation, Room 172. Local government entities would be forced to assess legislature-mandated fees. Improvements means the “buildings, structures, improvements, and alterations now constructed or at any time in the future constructed or placed upon the Land.”

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“Educational Purposes”: Nonprofit Land as a Vital Site of Struggle

NonProfit Quarterly

Because higher education institutions provide the public good of education to surrounding communities, their property holdings are exempt from taxation in all 50 states. Colleges, universities, and their medical centers are registered with the Internal Revenue Service as 501(c)(3) charitable nonprofit organizations.

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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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Building a Solidarity Economy in the South (and Beyond)—Cooperation Jackson

NonProfit Quarterly

Worker Self-Organization Purpose: Gather as many workers as wanted/makes sense in trade unions, cooperatives, worker centers, and so forth into networks of worker-managed, collectively owned means of production—so as to construct a new commons (i.e., Unfortunately, Mayor Lumumba died, from obscure causes, on Tuesday, February 25, 2014.