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How to Recharge a Nonprofit-Led Affordable Housing Delivery System

NonProfit Quarterly

Nonprofit expertise and leadership have long been key to affordable housing provision. Currently, about 60 percent of housing stock comprises single-family homes constructed before 1980. Employing a sharp systemic focus on the nonprofit delivery of housing can also help counter overcommodification.

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??How Community-Based Public Space Can Build Civic Trust: Lessons from Akron

NonProfit Quarterly

In the 1960s, the construction of interstate highway I-76 and state Route 59 disconnected Summit Lake from the rest of Akron. All these popular amenities and activities were conceived and constructed in close collaboration with residents. The city’s Black business district was devastated.

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Community Development Must Center Power Building: A San Francisco Story

NonProfit Quarterly

Heeding the lessons learned from Manilatown and the I-Hotel, the leadership of CRC recognized the need to change the rules of the physical environment in San Francisco’s Chinatown. A committee of tenants, including some rent strike leaders, conducted physical inspections of the buildings’ infrastructure with our housing construction manager.

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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. We have so much to learn.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

Published by the Heritage Foundation and formally titled Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise , the nearly 900-page document, divided into 30 chapters, offers a host of right-wing policy recommendations. The document has been widely described as a “ blueprint ” for a possible incoming Donald Trump administration.