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How to Recharge a Nonprofit-Led Affordable Housing Delivery System

NonProfit Quarterly

Currently, about 60 percent of housing stock comprises single-family homes constructed before 1980. While new housing is needed—and nonprofits must continue to be equipped to construct new housing—it is also important to maximize opportunities for new housing supply in the existing inventory of homes.

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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. Investing workers’ capital in ways that benefit workers and their communities.

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Community Development Must Center Power Building: A San Francisco Story

NonProfit Quarterly

An example of this approach to building grassroots leadership played out in 2011 when the San Francisco Housing Authority proposed to renovate Chinatown’s Ping Yuen public housing developments by converting it into subsidized housing—a project that would be led and managed by the agency.

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Fisheries and Stewardship: Lessons from Native Hawaiian Aquaculture

NonProfit Quarterly

There are many lessons to be learned from Indigenous aquaculture practices, especially in the areas of climate mitigation, adaptation, resilience, resource management, and food sovereignty. Kamakau described, the existence of a loko i‘a within a functioning ecosystem or landscape alone indicates abundance. 4 (See Figure 1.).

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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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Housing and Climate: Funding Holistic Solutions

Stanford Social Innovation Review

using non-toxic building materials that were manufactured, transported, and constructed using low-carbon, non-polluting methods and materials); reducing energy consumption and pollution; and using integrative design , which incorporates sustainability up front and promotes good health and livability throughout the building’s life cycle.

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Tenants Nationwide Call for Social Housing Now!

NonProfit Quarterly

It is democratically managed through the input of resident associations, tenant unions, and surrounding communities. Social housing must first serve and prioritize those most excluded by for-profit developers and landlords. Social housing is publicly owned or under democratic community control. Social Housing for Whom?