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Excessive Wealth Has Run Amok—This Must Stop

NonProfit Quarterly

Why Excessive Wealth Matters Academics and nonprofit activists have long talked about income inequality—and, more recently, have begun to address the more significant issue of wealth inequality. Since the birth of the United States, the federal government has seized over 1.5 What level would that be? Take Jeff Bezos.

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Social Housing: How a New Generation of Activists Are Reinventing Housing

NonProfit Quarterly

Some point to large-scale, government-run rental housing, while others also explicitly include housing cooperatives and community land trusts. But in the end, governments dragged their feet and promised change stayed on the drawing board. But that hasn’t stopped movements from pushing. In an era that we call Social Housing 1.0,