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How to Recharge a Nonprofit-Led Affordable Housing Delivery System

NonProfit Quarterly

Nonprofits raise capital, design and implement creative and flexible financing, and help people struggling with mortgage payments stay in their homes. The nonprofit ecosystem includes providing counseling services for aspiring homebuyers, acquiring distressed properties, building new homes, and rehabilitating distressed properties.

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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. 18 As AFSCME Local 3299 lays it out: B.