article thumbnail

Shifting the Harmful Narratives and Practices of Work Requirements

NonProfit Quarterly

Conservative leaders tout being the party of family values yet fail to recognize that work requirements keep families apart. Researchers found that the expanded CTC offered 10 times the return on its investment and that any program offering the same cash value would have similar effects.

article thumbnail

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.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

When It Comes to Promoting Prosperity, Production Beats Consumption

Stanford Social Innovation Review

It diverts our attention from the core challenge of building high-value production, which developing countries themselves know is the key to their prosperity. Various others work in the space in between, like Charter Cities Institute on urban development and economic clusters.

article thumbnail

Lifting a Powerful Policy Lever for Housing Justice

Stanford Social Innovation Review

That could happen when the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) finalizes the long-awaited Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule (AFFH), which was published in February in the Federal Register for a period of public comment—but only if we seize the moment. Change the narrative.

article thumbnail

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

NonProfit Quarterly

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. But in order to fully contextualize what it means to protect Atlanta’s natural habitat, we must first dive deep into Atlanta as a home to Black folks.

article thumbnail

Housing and Climate: Funding Holistic Solutions

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Property values shoot up, as does the cost of living, and lower-income households are displaced. And in January 2022, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) opened access to more than $2 billion in federal funds to help communities equitably recover and improve long-term resilience to disasters and future climate impacts.

article thumbnail

Fisheries and Stewardship: Lessons from Native Hawaiian Aquaculture

NonProfit Quarterly

Hawai‘i’s famed/infamous history of ranching, pineapple and sugar plantation agriculture, American military land use, and rapid urban development have decimated the infrastructure of a biocultural system that once functioned sustainably across watersheds, from our mountaintops and down to the sea.