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The Criminalization of Homelessness

NonProfit Quarterly

Half of all renters now spend more than 30 percent of their income on rent and utilities, and nearly 600,000 people are homeless , unable to afford a place to live at all. Half of all renters now spend more than 30 percent of their income on rent and utilities, and nearly 600,000 people are homeless.

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Learning That Changes Lives: Local Leader Shares Journey to Nonprofit Success

NonProfit Leadership Center

After studying finance in college and then receiving her law degree from Florida State University, Erin practiced law for 13 years — first as in-house counsel for a multi-family housing company, then in private practice at a law firm, and finally as a prosecutor at the state attorney’s office.

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Homeless, Then Shot by Federal Police

NonProfit Quarterly

Despite multiple warnings, fines, and legal notices directing them to leave, they had stayed because they were otherwise homeless. In total, more than a dozen law enforcement officials were waiting, undercover or in hiding, to surprise the Roberts family.

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Nonprofit Holiday Gift Guide

Nonprofit Megaphone

In their online shop , 100% of all sales proceeds go toward helping save the lives of homeless pets! We work with communities and governments to tackle the root causes of bonobo endangerment. Susie’s Senior Dogs (SSD) is a nonprofit organization “working to bring awareness to the plight of homeless senior dogs. ” . .”

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Centering Racial Justice in the Fight for Housing Justice

Stanford Social Innovation Review

It’s been this way for centuries , beginning with the displacement of Native People in the 1800s and continuing with the use of eminent domain laws to take desirable land away from thriving Black communities. schools, hospitals) in BIPOC neighborhoods makes living there more difficult.

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Profit at What Cost? An Interview with Ray Suarez, host of Going for Broke

NonProfit Quarterly

We’ll pull out the money that we promised to create some infrastructure, onramps and offramps to highways, the kinds of things that local governments do to entice new investment.” They are homeless. No one ever thinks of insecurely housed people as having interior lives, as having social lives, as having romantic lives, even.

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Abolish the US Child Welfare System: A Conversation with Alan Dettlaff

NonProfit Quarterly

In reality, more than 70 percent of children in foster care today are in foster care because of what the system calls neglect, which is largely related to poverty issues. By 1968, when all states had a mandatory reporting law, that number grew to 11,000 cases, and Black children were significantly impacted by that.

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