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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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Shifting the Harmful Narratives and Practices of Work Requirements

NonProfit Quarterly

Conservative leaders tout being the party of family values yet fail to recognize that work requirements keep families apart. Researchers found that the expanded CTC offered 10 times the return on its investment and that any program offering the same cash value would have similar effects.

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How to Recharge a Nonprofit-Led Affordable Housing Delivery System

NonProfit Quarterly

As investor-owned rental properties increase, the values of other homes in a neighborhood can decline, worsening the racial wealth gap. In 2021, approximately 30 percent of home sales in majority Black neighborhoods were made to investors, compared to just 12 percent in other zip codes.

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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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“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.

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Antionette Kerr : How I Became a Self-Care Radical

NonProfit Hub

Department of Housing and Urban Development) transitions threatened most aspects of our funding, I said “yes” to more than 12 local and state boards while serving as an executive director of an affordable housing nonprofit and vice president of our state coalition. At a time when HUD (U.S. Often these things trickle through to staff.

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Fisheries and Stewardship: Lessons from Native Hawaiian Aquaculture

NonProfit Quarterly

Hawai‘i’s famed/infamous history of ranching, pineapple and sugar plantation agriculture, American military land use, and rapid urban development have decimated the infrastructure of a biocultural system that once functioned sustainably across watersheds, from our mountaintops and down to the sea.