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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 teams with and coordinates with other environmental nonprofits to use every law on the books to battle climate change and polluters. Rutzen was legal advisor in the Czechoslovak Parliament where he helped draft the country’s nonprofit laws. Cook, Ph.D.

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From Policy to Power: Centering People by Supporting Tenant Unions

NonProfit Quarterly

But relying on the market to solve the affordability crisis ignores the structural problems and power dynamics baked into our housing system. By some estimates , private equity firms will control 40 percent of the single-family rental market by 2030. And its only getting worse.

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We Must Be Founders

Stanford Social Innovation Review

We need to reimagine our laws, regulations, customs, and institutions. What if we had a Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) that took its mandate to ensure human flourishing rather than real estate profit? We need to be much more aspirational and long-term in our thinking. It won’t be easy.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

Given my work, it specifically focuses on university-driven urban development. The notion of “smart” has often focused on technological innovations and sustainable design, and I asked: What about the people—the diverse and marginalized communities that struggle to maintain sustainable lives in changing urban locales?

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How Mobile Home Owners Organize for Land Ownership and Climate Resiliency

NonProfit Quarterly

Instead, contemporary manufactured homes are regulated under a strict code from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). When it comes to evictions, “residents have few protections under a patchwork of state laws.” And the average construction cost of a manufactured home is just $90,000.

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Project 2025: What Does It Mean for Racial and Economic Justice?

NonProfit Quarterly

Housing: The Project 2025 chapter on housing is authored by a familiar name, none other than the former US Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Ben Carson. Two things are true: 1) A lot of what is written will never make it into law, and 2) too much of it may well. Occasionally, one finds an interesting wrinkle.