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How to Recharge a Nonprofit-Led Affordable Housing Delivery System

NonProfit Quarterly

In fact, a recently released Government Accountability Office report indicates the five largest corporate owners possess 300,000 of the nearly 450,000 institutional investor-owned homes across the United States, a trend that has only further consolidated the market.

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Shifting the Harmful Narratives and Practices of Work Requirements

NonProfit Quarterly

Work requirements are based on several problematic truths about the United States: an unwillingness to govern by fact rather than fiction, a deep history of racism and sexism, and a centuries-long capitalist work ethic that treats people as dispensable. They are administratively efficient.

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When It Comes to Promoting Prosperity, Production Beats Consumption

Stanford Social Innovation Review

It diverts our attention from the core challenge of building high-value production, which developing countries themselves know is the key to their prosperity. Various others work in the space in between, like Charter Cities Institute on urban development and economic clusters.

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Lifting a Powerful Policy Lever for Housing Justice

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Tiffany Manuel & Dana Bourland What if government, the philanthropic sector, and community advocates could pull a policy lever and advance housing, climate, and racial justice all at once? Change the narrative.

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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

Since the reinvigoration of the #StopCopCity movement in January 2023, 1 following the murder of a forest defender affectionately known as Tortuguita, 2 Atlanta police and the local government have been adamant about depicting Defend the Atlanta Forest protesters and activists as “outside agitators.” 3 There’s a history in that phrase.

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Housing and Climate: Funding Holistic Solutions

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Property values shoot up, as does the cost of living, and lower-income households are displaced. And in January 2022, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) opened access to more than $2 billion in federal funds to help communities equitably recover and improve long-term resilience to disasters and future climate impacts.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

A young adult explained how Yale’s expansion into the neighborhood was a direct agent of violence, both raising property values and pushing youth into dangerous enemy gang territory. The greater value of campus land is in its nonprofit tax- exempt status, which serves as a financial shelter for profitable research and private investors.