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Housing and Climate: Funding Holistic Solutions

Stanford Social Innovation Review

For example: Community organizers in San Juan, Puerto Rico , persuaded legislators to establish a community land trust to prevent resort developers from grabbing land from low-income residents who must evacuate so the government can dredge a polluted waterway that floods when it rains. What Philanthropy Can Do.

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“Educational Purposes”: Nonprofit Land as a Vital Site of Struggle

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Yuet Lam-Tsang Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2023 issue, “Movement Economies: Making Our Vision a Collective Reality.” At the height of the pandemic, I was swept up in a titanic battle being waged over the right to a city. 1 That city was New Haven, Connecticut.

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Tenants Nationwide Call for Social Housing Now!

NonProfit Quarterly

In Washington, DC , dozens were arrested for calling for generous public funding for affordable housing at the office of Representative Steve Womack (R-AR), who chairs the US House subcommittee on housing appropriations. It means treating housing as a public good and a basic human need, rather than as a speculative commodity.

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Project 2025: What Does It Mean for Racial and Economic Justice?

NonProfit Quarterly

For instance, in the chapter on education (Chapter 11), Lindsey Burke, who directs Heritage’s Center for Education Policy, writes that the “The Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, which prioritizes government and public sector work over private sector employment, should be terminated” (354). It’s not unique.