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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.

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The Next 4 Years: Tapping Into Nonprofit Expertise

The NonProfit Times

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Jonathan T.M. She also was a senior adviser on finance and development at the U.S. She is an experienced executive who runs a $1 billion business and entrepreneur who sees an issue and brings partners together to remediate the problem.

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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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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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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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??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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Community Development Must Center Power Building: A San Francisco Story

NonProfit Quarterly

Before the tenants’ objections and proposal could be addressed, the Housing Authority’s proposed conversion was shelved after the federal Housing and Urban Development department sanctioned the agency for mismanagement.