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How Mobile Home Owners Organize for Land Ownership and Climate Resiliency

NonProfit Quarterly

A Changing Reputation Modular home construction has existed in some form for over a century. Instead, contemporary manufactured homes are regulated under a strict code from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). And the average construction cost of a manufactured home is just $90,000.

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Community Development Must Center Power Building: A San Francisco Story

NonProfit Quarterly

Chinese American attorney Ed Lee (who later served as mayor from 2011 until his untimely death while in office in 2017), with the Asian Law Caucus, supported PYRIA leaders, like Chang Jok Lee, to organize the city’s largest sustained public housing rent strike in response to unsafe conditions that contributed to the murder of one of its residents.

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Whose Capital? Our Capital! The Power of Workers’ Pensions for the Common Good

NonProfit Quarterly

By investing billions in affordable housing, we can start to address the growing housing crisis and help workers acquire homes, thereby further building their retirement security while creating construction jobs and stimulating local economies. A Reply to Critics,” Harvard Business Law Review 12, no. 2 (2022): 215–48; and David H.

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The City That Was in a Forest—Atlanta’s Disappeared Trees and Black People: A Conversation with Hugh “H. D.” Hunter

NonProfit Quarterly

Natives of the city have gone through false promises of positive urban development 4 —development that instead, in most cases, came at an unbearable cost. Eminent domain gobbled up many homes, exploited labor, and pushed the start of new jail construction and inflammatory policy–policing.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

11 Under the cover of “educational purposes,” research that has the potential to generate millions in patent revenues—let alone the revenues from construction or health services—benefits from the reduced overhead of sitting on property-tax-exempt campus land. Given my work, it specifically focuses on university-driven urban development.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

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. Two things are true: 1) A lot of what is written will never make it into law, and 2) too much of it may well. Occasionally, one finds an interesting wrinkle.