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Why Resident Ownership Matters

NonProfit Quarterly

Emily Thaden: What’s happening in manufactured housing communities, across the country, is that increasingly there are private equity investors moving into the space. And so, this is putting pressure on communities, because owners are putting manufactured housing communities up for sale. View the full webinar here.

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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. The movement gained momentum with the support of government programs like Mitchell-Lama , which aimed to provide affordable housing through a public-private partnership.

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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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Lessons from the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season: What philanthropy can do better

Candid

It also hit manufactured housing communities, home to many in the tourism and service industries that drive the states economy. Hardest hit by flooding was the Central Appalachia region, where years of disinvestment by government and philanthropy left the region ill prepared.

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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. The Second Principal: An Economic Mechanism Unlike conservative antipathy to centralized government, mutualists see that government has a role in building the next eras mutualist sector.

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Newsletter: Funding Freeze: What Nonprofits Must Do NOW; How to Approach Audience Research; FCC Investigates PBS, NPR Sponsorship Practices

Selfish Giving

First, I've talked with some of you about the government's hold on grants and funding. Three things this week. Fortunately, the hold was lifted. But what happened SCARED THE out of people - and rightfully so. People have asked: What can partnership teams do? Here's my three-point strategy. Ask companies to step up and support you NOW.

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Gather, Share, Build

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Further, vaccine cold storage equipment manufacturers can focus on their core competencies, while being assured that the data from deployed equipment will help their customer countries manage their cold storage assets. Sharing data needs more than technical infrastructure; it also requires social and legal infrastructure.