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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 Homeland Security Jacob Wood Co-Founder & Executive Board Chairman Team Rubicon Team Rubicon became one of the most impactful nonprofits under Wood’s leadership. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Jonathan T.M. Here are a few suggestions.

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Community Development Must Center Power Building: A San Francisco Story

NonProfit Quarterly

Heeding the lessons learned from Manilatown and the I-Hotel, the leadership of CRC recognized the need to change the rules of the physical environment in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Five years later, in 2020, the new 434-unit Ping Yuen developments opened with an award-winning design. Photo courtesy of CCDC.

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??How Community-Based Public Space Can Build Civic Trust: Lessons from Akron

NonProfit Quarterly

The Akron Metropolitan Housing Authority leveraged the improvements at Summit Lake Park to secure a Choice Neighborhoods planning grant from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development. At a time when community leadership and innovation are sorely needed, this is no small achievement.

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The Pitfalls of Personal Judgment

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Annual point-in-time data by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development indicates that about one-quarter of families who have experienced homelessness once will succumb to it again.

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How to Recharge a Nonprofit-Led Affordable Housing Delivery System

NonProfit Quarterly

Nonprofit expertise and leadership have long been key to affordable housing provision. Data on the size of these inventories are unclear, and Congress should ensure that the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and government-sponsored entities (Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac) regularly make these data available.

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Antionette Kerr : How I Became a Self-Care Radical

NonProfit Hub

I credit them for my fierce work ethic, which fit right in with the “do more with less” mindset of nonprofit work, but as I rose through the ranks of nonprofit leadership, I wasn’t quite prepared for the toll it took on my mental, physical and spiritual well-being. At a time when HUD (U.S.