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Excessive Wealth Has Run Amokā€”This Must Stop

NonProfit Quarterly

Last year, Jeff Bezos donated $120 million to fight homelessness, then invested over $500 million in a venture that will likely make it worse. Comprising consultants, attorneys, accountants, wealth managers, and others, this wealth defense industry employs various tools to hide wealth and avoid taxation. Take Jeff Bezos.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

And while Karl Marx-Hof is a mandatory stop, what is actually more interesting is the broader system of social housing it exemplifies, which includes public housing, limited equity cooperatives, public developers, inclusive urban and environmental planning, excellent public transit, and extensive regulation and taxation of the private market.