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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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Countering Criminalization: The Vital Role of Organizing Against Homelessness

NonProfit Quarterly

A recent US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) report identified 771,000 homeless people in January 2024, a record number that was 18 percent higher than the previous year, which in turn marked a 12 percent increase over 2022. And homelessness is rising.

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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. Of course, its more than just the direct impact of weathering a natural disaster that can thrust people into homelessness. Climate change is poised to wipe out nearly $1.5

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Federal Workers Are Organizing for Democracy—from the Inside Out

NonProfit Quarterly

We are speaking out in our own names and our own stories,” Paul Osadebe, a FUN organizer and trial attorney with the Department of Housing and Urban Development told NPQ. When institutions are gutted, programs shuttered, and colleagues fired en masse , silence is no longer an option. “We That message has reverberated.

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How States Can Link Up to Support Human Rights

NonProfit Quarterly

States that have similar values about the purpose of government, regardless of where theyre located geographically, should begin thinking about collectively laying the groundwork that protects political rights and advances economic ones through legalinstrumentsknown as InterstateCompacts.

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Scaling Impact: How Mergers Can Advance Housing in Communities

NonProfit Quarterly

Capped low-income housing tax credits and gap financing sourced through the US Department of Housing and Urban Developments HOME Investment Partnerships program and Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program , as well as local tax revenue, mean that only a limited number of projects will move forward in any year.

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Antionette Kerr : How I Became a Self-Care Radical

NonProfit Hub

Department of Housing and Urban Development) transitions threatened most aspects of our funding, I said “yes” to more than 12 local and state boards while serving as an executive director of an affordable housing nonprofit and vice president of our state coalition. At a time when HUD (U.S. Often these things trickle through to staff.