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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

Natives of the city have gone through false promises of positive urban development 4 —development that instead, in most cases, came at an unbearable cost. The reality is that corporations in the city spark deforestation 25 —and because they are here for profit, they’re going to extract more than they give. Shoshana K.

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From Policy to Power: Centering People by Supporting Tenant Unions

NonProfit Quarterly

The fundamental profit-seeking goals of these companies have contributed to increasing rents, as well as instability and housing insecurity. Funds like HouseUS , where I work, and the Fund for an Inclusive California have been moving money to tenant organizing and providing valuable forms of non-grantmaking support for several years.