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

NonProfit Quarterly

In the 1930s and ’40s, banks and federal government officials redlined Summit Lake—a neighborhood named for its beautiful glacial lake—making it virtually impossible for anyone to qualify for a mortgage in the neighborhood or for any property owner, commercial or otherwise, to qualify for financing to make improvements.

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Lifting a Powerful Policy Lever for Housing Justice

Stanford Social Innovation Review

That could happen when the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) finalizes the long-awaited Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule (AFFH), which was published in February in the Federal Register for a period of public comment—but only if we seize the moment. This strategy was not a panacea.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

6 (Central to the success of the CTU was naming this problem, refusing to accept the so-called solutions foisted on their schools by finance capital, and, ultimately, striking to push back against austerity-driven corporate strategies.) The same is true of pensions.

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Community Development Must Center Power Building: A San Francisco Story

NonProfit Quarterly

Although the campaign was lost, the I-Hotel struggle was a foundational political moment for Asian Americans in the United States. Under the Reagan administration, the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit incentivized the privatization of affordable housing development.

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Housing and Climate: Funding Holistic Solutions

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Funders for Housing and Opportunity (FHO) is a collaborative of 13 philanthropies, including The JPB Foundation where I serve as senior vice president of environment and strategic initiatives. But the solutions coming from the fields of housing and climate change often are not as holistic as they need to be.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

2020 found New Haven residents, organized by the coalition New Haven Rising, storming the city’s March 30th Zoom budget meeting to express their disgust at Yale University’s continued strain on the city’s finances. Given my work, it specifically focuses on university-driven urban development.

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From Policy to Power: Centering People by Supporting Tenant Unions

NonProfit Quarterly

This could mean a slumlord of one building, or a private equity firm that owns multiple buildings in one city, or even Project-Based Section 8 buildings, under the control of HUD (the US Department of Housing and Urban Development). A tenant union can be neighborhood- or citywide, across multiple landlords.