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Limited Equity Housing Cooperatives: Why They’re a Solution for Our Times

NonProfit Quarterly

Laws and regulations supporting LEHCs vary from state to state and country to country. The San Francisco Community Land Trust , Asian Law Caucus , and Chinatown Community Development Center teamed up to buy the building and transform it into a cooperative.

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How to Help People of Color Become Homeowners: Data from Philadelphia

NonProfit Quarterly

In Philadelphia , there are expensive historic districts, clusters of new luxury construction, walkable rowhouse neighborhoods, and areas that are indistinguishable from the nearby suburbs in look and price. Updated every few years, this analysis has documented change in the city for more than two decades.

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A Political Roadmap to Social Housing: How Do We Win?

NonProfit Quarterly

Tenant mobilizations that enhance resident protections, rights, and due process—when combined with rent or affordability controls (where authorized by state law)—create a profit crisis for landlords. Construction of new rental social housing will be more challenging.

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The Playbook: How to Organize and Stop Megaprojects

NonProfit Quarterly

Expansion of the surveillance state : The Olympics—as law professor Anne Toomey McKenna notes —are a venue famous (or infamous) for “pervasive and persistent surveillance before, during, and after the Games.” Stage 3: Go Public Economic or community development…must replace a “thing focus” with a “people focus.”

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Banking and Community: A Conversation with Oscar Perry Abello

NonProfit Quarterly

Oscar Perry Abello: In my work as an economic justice correspondent at Next City, I had written all these stories about credit unions, community banking, and CDFIs [ Community Development Financial Institutions ]. For example, a construction loan is too risky for the credit union, so the loan fund handles that.

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In Los Angeles, a Black-Led Community Land Trust Builds for the Future

NonProfit Quarterly

The campaigns—particularly the second one around the Crenshaw Line—generated many wins, including an agreement with the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority in 2013 to work with the Los Angeles Black Worker Center to train and hire Black construction workers from the neighborhood to build the line.

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What Does Centering Native Justice Require? A New Report Has Answers

NonProfit Quarterly

Tara Evonne Trudell (Santee Sioux/Rarmuri/Xicana), a visual artist interviewed for the report, notes that Western justice feels like a colonial construct imposed upon Indigenous people. Among the Din (Navajo) people, a core concept is hozho, which roughly translates as peace, balance, beauty, and harmony (19). What does Native justice demand?