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The City That Was in a Forest—Atlanta’s Disappeared Trees and Black People: A Conversation with Hugh “H. D.” Hunter

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Yannick Lowery / www.severepaper.com Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s fall 2023 issue, “How Do We Create Home in the Future? Natives of the city have gone through false promises of positive urban development 4 —development that instead, in most cases, came at an unbearable cost.

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From Policy to Power: Centering People by Supporting Tenant Unions

NonProfit Quarterly

This could mean a slumlord of one building, or a private equity firm that owns multiple buildings in one city, or even Project-Based Section 8 buildings, under the control of HUD (the US Department of Housing and Urban Development). A tenant union can be neighborhood- or citywide, across multiple landlords.

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Shifting the Harmful Narratives and Practices of Work Requirements

NonProfit Quarterly

The narrative roots of attaching work requirements to public benefits have been developing since the racist and sexist ideologies of slavery in the United States. That’s not career development. Conservative leaders tout being the party of family values yet fail to recognize that work requirements keep families apart.

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Scaling Impact: How Mergers Can Advance Housing in Communities

NonProfit Quarterly

One place where affordable housing differs from renewables is a relative lack of openness to mergers, which places many nonprofit housing firms in a potentially vulnerable position. From where I stand, as the leader of the National Housing Trust, a national housing nonprofit, I think it might. Could that change?

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Federal Workers Are Organizing for Democracy—from the Inside Out

NonProfit Quarterly

The FUN is offering a direct response to sweeping purges, politicized restructuring, and the hollowing out of public institutions under President Donald Trump’s administration. The largest effort to date is the Federal Unionists Network (FUN). Because if you give up your voice as soon as you’re under attack, you’ve already lost.”

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How the Climate Crisis Impacts People Who Are Unhoused

NonProfit Quarterly

trillion in US home values by 2055 according to a recent report by First Street Technology, a research firm that studies climate threats to housing. Thinking Beyond Shelters What can nonprofit organizations and other groups do to help? Local Help Finally, nonprofits can provide the basics and make it local.

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How States Can Link Up to Support Human Rights

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Morgan Lane on iStock How can nonprofit leaders and movement activists effectively respond to Trump 2.0, The incoming Trump administration also aims to limit federal agency power regarding social welfare. Defending against police state weaponization is imperative.