NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 27, 2025

A recent US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) report identified 771,000 homeless people in January 2024, a record number that was 18 percent higher than the previous year, which in turn marked a 12 percent increase over 2022. Johnson , which gave local governments license to fine, ticket, or arrest unhoused people.

Homelessness 105

Homelessness Poverty Public and Social Policy Urban development 105

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Work requirements are based on several problematic truths about the United States: an unwillingness to govern by fact rather than fiction, a deep history of racism and sexism, and a centuries-long capitalist work ethic that treats people as dispensable. They are administratively efficient.

Public and Social Policy 129

Public and Social Policy Poverty Insurance Governance 129

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 26, 2023

4 Once on Prospect, I was awash in a sea of excitement and activity as over 150 residents, labor activists, students, and onlookers buzzed about, handing out food and water, playing with young children, stewarding informational tables, dancing to the music, and finishing a massive art project that immediately drew my attention.

Education 98

Education Education Universities Public and Nonprofit Management 98

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 27, 2022

FHO, which centers racial equity in cross-sector efforts to address the systemic causes of housing insecurity, is now actively searching out ways to invest in housing and climate justice. In this article, I talk about collective actions that funders can take to holistically address climate-related impacts on housing justice.

Public and Social Policy 111

Public and Social Policy Energy Manufacturing Environmental 111

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 22, 2025

Their ongoing journeys have surfaced four lessons that can help other cities move beyond conventional planning pitfalls, and adopt a more responsive, inclusive, and sustainable approach to urban development.

Urban development 117

Urban development Entrepreneurship Collaborations Energy 117

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Image credit: Chelsea Bland In the wake of a January 28 government memo titled Fork in the Road encouraging federal workers to resign their positions, and mounting warnings of mass layoffs (including the threat to lay off over 10,000 US Agency for International Development workers ), unions and their members are increasingly going public.

Nonprofit governance and management 105

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Governance Urban development 105

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Image credit: Seattle City Council on Wikimedia Commons Across the country, renters and unhoused people are organizing to demand that all levels of government address the nation’s housing crisis. Public housing—directly funded by the government and hence affordable to the lowest income people—is a fundamental cornerstone of social housing.

Public and Social Policy 130

Public and Social Policy Homelessness Nonprofit governance and management Nonprofit Administration and Development 130

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 25, 2025

In the face of a relentless effort to dismantle the federal government from within, a new movement is taking shape—led not by politicians or pundits but by federal workers themselves. And we will work together to create the conditions necessary to build a government that serves the public good. That message has reverberated.

Civil Society 105

Civil Society Governance Urban development Environmental 105

Fundraising Leadership

MARCH 21, 2025

Its an active state of heightened receptivity. Miranda Spivack, Backroom Deals in Our Backyards , How Government Secrecy Harms Our Communities and the Local Heroes Fighting Back. Miranda Spivack is an award-winning journalist and editor who reports on government accountability and secrecy and urban development.

Medical 69

Medical Governance Urban development Universities 69