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How Limited Equity Co-ops Can Sustain Affordable Homeownership

NonProfit Quarterly

Policies such as redlining , as highlighted in Richard Rothsteins The Color of Law , created entrenched housing inequities. Additionally, millions of Americans reside in manufactured housing communities, often called mobile home parks, which do provide affordable housing. First, acquisition costs in high-demand areas can be expensive.

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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. The hub will educate and guide tenants to manage or own their own housing and support various resident and community governance structures.

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The Next Generation of Mutualism

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The left has often undercut a notion of a mutualist future by insisting that every problem needs a large centralized government solution. To ensure mutualism thrives in the next generation, communities need laws, regulations, practices, and capital markets that encourage solidarity and investment outside of any given silo.

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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. There is another option—a cooperative option.

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Policies for Housing With Heart

Stanford Social Innovation Review

As I’ve written about elsewhere , the single-family, two-generation patterns of real estate occupancy were heavily promoted by the secondary beneficiaries of single-family-housing in the early 20th century: real estate and home mortgage brokers, automobile tire manufactures and oil companies.

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Pathways to Democratic Business: What Two Co-op Networks Can Teach Us

NonProfit Quarterly

Here, I focus on two of the book’s US case studies: Industrial Commons , a textile manufacturing network based in North Carolina; and Obran , a worker co-op holding company based in Baltimore that has gained national prominence. But the manufacturing decline hit many regions outside the Rust Belt, including western North Carolina.

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ESG Needs a Shared Language

Stanford Social Innovation Review

ESG for Regulation: Helping governments make and monitor policies, compliance, and laws. ESG for Assurance exists to help business leaders and investors make better financial decisions by providing data that enables them to account for environmental, social, and governance risks. ESG for Assurance. ESG for Regulation.