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

NonProfit Quarterly

Part of this work involves connecting people with lived experiences of homelessness, precarious rentals, and manufactured housing with homeowners fearing gentrification and displacement. Democratic governance models such as CLTs, co-ops, and mutual housing might mollify some community opposition, but policy change is imperative.

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How to Interrupt the Public Funds to Private Profits Pipeline: A California Story

NonProfit Quarterly

Unlike big commercial banks, most public banks (and all California public banks under state law) will be nonprofits and use their earnings from loan interest and fees to reinvest in local economies and large-scale community-wide projects. Instead, public banks partner with local banks to expand community-driven impacts.

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Can Compassionate Lending Bridge the Racial Wealth Divide?

NonProfit Quarterly

Originating in Eastern Europe centuries ago, these programs helped Jewish communities overcome financial hardship without the burden of interest, which is prohibited by Orthodox Jewish law within Jewish communities. With the support provided, hes now begun rebuilding his life.

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Building Tenant Power for the Long Haul: A Story from Long Beach, California

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Vyacheslav Dumchev on istock This is the second article in NPQ ’s series titled Owning the Economy: Stories from Latinx Communities. Landlords also have to notify the city when evicting tenants for substantial remodeling and are subject to a fine if they violate the law.

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Economic Justice: Nonprofit Leaders Speak Out

NonProfit Quarterly

Nelson Colón of the Puerto Rico Community Foundation, and Clara Miller, president emerita of the Heron Foundation—come from philanthropy. In a massive charitable response, vast networks of locally supported food pantries, coat drives, homeless shelters, community clinics, and free schools have been launched and sustained.

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Zero-Problem Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

CNN recently reported that “California has spent billions to fight homelessness. The second example illustrates an important intermediary step towards eliminating homelessness from a Zero-Problem Philanthropy vision. Yet, replicating this transformation in many other hotels in New York did not lower the number of homeless people.

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Faith Communities and Affordable Housing: Challenges and Opportunities

NonProfit Quarterly

Limited housing stock impacts families by raising their housing costs to unaffordable levels, forcing people to move or face homelessness. The bill allows these developments to bypass cumbersome rezoning and (provided certain conditions are met) waives applicable California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) laws.