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Driving Change in Housing Policies With Advocacy and Organizing

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Advocacy and organizing for racially equitable housing policies is a cornerstone of building a just housing system in the United States. COVID-19 has exacerbated this crisis, and the country’s recent racial reckoning has heightened awareness of the need for racially equitable housing policies to support healthier communities.

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Leveraging the Collective Power of Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

I was a senior program officer with the trust at that point, and was new to philanthropy and fairly new to housing. Although new to both housing and philanthropy, I knew that where and how we live is integral to our health, education, and economic mobility. The problem is bigger than any one issue.

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The T-Rex and the Snowshoe Hare: What’s Next for Philanthropy in the 2020s

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Gabriel Kasper , Justin Marcoux & Jennifer Holk Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution has rarely, if ever, seemed like an apt metaphor for the field of philanthropy. After all, philanthropy is largely insulated from many of the forces that drive adaptation in other industries and circumstances.

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Centering Racial Justice in the Fight for Housing Justice

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Hard-wired into systems and programs at all levels of government and the private sector, these policies bolstered white Americans’ stability, wealth, and access to opportunity while concentrating the effects of segregation, displacement, destabilization, gentrification, and poverty on BIPOC populations.

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Transforming Our Housing System

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Getting our housing system to work better for all—especially for families of color who have long experienced discrimination and bias—will require a long-term concerted endeavor with coordinated efforts from a broad host of public, private, and community actors. A Collaborative Approach to Housing Justice.

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The New Problem-Solving Skills That All Cities Need

Stanford Social Innovation Review

But this modern reality comes with an inconvenient truth: Our public institutions are not equipped with the updated skills they need to effectively tackle the world’s ever-escalating challenges—not by a long shot. Consider the climate crisis. There’s good reason for that, as these skills are foundational to the work of a well-run city.

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Systems Change: Making the Aspirational Actionable

Stanford Social Innovation Review

In recent years, social justice leaders have consistently called for a systems change approach to redressing the root causes of social problems, rather than only mitigating their symptoms. After all, social justice is by nature utopian. Public awareness: to change the perception of a group at a societal or cultural level.