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Public Land for Public Good: Preserving Miami’s Dominican Neighborhood

NonProfit Quarterly

Those who’ve managed to scratch out a way to stay are at risk every day of being erased. In 2018, I gathered a group of nine people from the community—small business owners; residents; nonprofit, school, and university leaders—to discuss how to preserve our beloved neighborhood. Many have already closed, buckling under tripling rents.

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Holding Our Ground: Tenant Organizing in San Francisco’s Mission District

NonProfit Quarterly

Stunningly, the same report found that 51 percent of Ellis Act evictions were done within one year of landlords acquiring the properties—a sure sign that the evictions had nothing to do with landlords “retiring” and everything to do with landlords seeking to extract more value from the properties they had purchased.

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