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From Owing to Owning: How Communities Can Control Commercial Land

NonProfit Quarterly

percent poverty rate (as of 2001). A particularly useful tool would be community “opportunity to purchase” legislation, which could function like tenant “ first right to purchase ” laws. These laws give residents the first right to purchase multifamily residences (at market rates) whenever a property comes up for sale.

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Equity in Employment: A Vital Step Toward Dismantling Structural Racism in Brazil

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Data released in 2022 by the Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE, “Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics”) shows that unemployment and informal labor are higher among this group, which is also more exposed to violence and poverty. Per the World Bank’s poverty line threshold, 18.6

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Leading Together for Systems Change

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Take the Center for Law and Social Policy , a nonprofit committed to reducing poverty and increasing economic opportunity. Starting in 2010, the CEO authorized and worked closely with the organization’s COO to prioritize racial equity, both internally and in its public policy work.

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Homeless, Then Shot by Federal Police

NonProfit Quarterly

In total, more than a dozen law enforcement officials were waiting, undercover or in hiding, to surprise the Roberts family. Before they were living in two campers on federal public land, the Roberts family shared an apartment in Emmett, ID, where Judy Roberts worked in a factory.

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How Dollar Store Kudzu Consumes Local Economies—And What to Do About It

NonProfit Quarterly

But to respond effectively, it is important to understand dollar stores’ growing importance, how communities are responding, and how public policy might better support community-based businesses. On its website, ILSR maintains a set of maps showing the overlay of poverty and store location in multiple metropolitan areas.

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Locked Out: The Myth of the Black Middle Class

NonProfit Quarterly

When federal or nonprofit assistance is available to victims of natural disasters, Black families often find that they do not qualify for relief because of informal land ownership arrangements that are the legacy of Jim Crow laws, which often denied Black people formal means of passing property from one generation to another.

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HLTH 2022: Obstacles to Health Equity

NonProfit Quarterly

Adimika Arthur, Founding Executive Director of HealthTech4Medicaid, then led a discussion of the ways that public policy and convening intersect with these issues. What impact can those shifts have without broader systemic reforms to address racism and poverty?

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