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

NonProfit Quarterly

Among these were the local zoo, a university, a theater project, a parks advocacy group, a neighborhood association, a community development corporation, the local community foundation, and many public agencies—including the county park system, the housing authority, the transit agency, and the city and county governments.

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How Mobile Home Owners Organize for Land Ownership and Climate Resiliency

NonProfit Quarterly

Over the years, the mobile home has acquired a less desirable reputation, a stigma that the homes are cheaply made or associated with poverty. Instead, contemporary manufactured homes are regulated under a strict code from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). That reputation is shifting.