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How Limited Equity Co-ops Can Sustain Affordable Homeownership

NonProfit Quarterly

Additionally, millions of Americans reside in manufactured housing communities, often called mobile home parks, which do provide affordable housing. Yet when Gadiel Galvez and his fellow, primarily Latinx, residents of a manufactured housing community sought to own the land underneath their homes, they opted to use an LEC structure.

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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. These all are interconnected and dynamic. Policy changes without accompanying operational support and infrastructure are like trees without roots.

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How Resident-Owned Communities Can Create Mass Affordable Homeownership

NonProfit Quarterly

An underappreciated tool for closing this gap—potentially benefitting millions of US households—involves resident-owned manufactured housing communities. A Freddie Mac Multifamily survey conducted in 2019 estimated 45,000 manufactured housing communities operating across the United States.

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The Next Generation of Mutualism

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Hemstreet went on to work with local cooperatives, civic groups, manufacturers, nonprofits, and the local Rotary Clubthe other mutualists in her areato launch Morgantons Industrial Commons, a nonprofit economic-development project that created the Carolina Textile District and four additional community-owned organizations.

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Nonprofits Need Equity Too: The Case for Providing “Enterprise Capital”

NonProfit Quarterly

Case Study 1: Building a Market for Resident-Owned Communities ROC USA is a social enterprise based in New Hampshire, but operating across the country, that works to expand resident ownership of manufactured home communities (often called mobile home parks).

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Housing Innovation in Rural America

NonProfit Quarterly

Coproduced by Partners for Rural Transformation , a coalition of six regional community development financial institutions, and NPQ , authors highlight efforts to address multi-generational poverty in Appalachia, the rural West, Indian Country, South Texas, and the Mississippi Delta. A single modular unit or “box” is 288 square feet.

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