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Zero-Problem Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

CNN recently reported that “California has spent billions to fight homelessness. The second example illustrates an important intermediary step towards eliminating homelessness from a Zero-Problem Philanthropy vision. Yet, replicating this transformation in many other hotels in New York did not lower the number of homeless people.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

In contrast, guaranteed income gives cash to people living below the poverty line or with inconsistent or no income and entails a qualifying process. In 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King advocated for guaranteed income as the simplest and most effective solution to poverty. Though related to universal basic income (UBI), it is not the same.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

Neoliberalism put millions into deep poverty and simultaneously atrophied the kind of public sector needed to pull them out. The existing housing system has left hundreds of thousands homeless, and millions more giving over half of their income to their landlords, only to (often) live in substandard housing.

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A New (Renewable) Energy Tyranny

NonProfit Quarterly

This model forces communities to pay the enormous costs of unneeded transmission line construction and bear the massive burden of transmission line failures. billion in rapid funding for transmission line construction. Governor Newsom immediately came to the rescue. It can be easy to miss the coercive nature of these priorities.

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