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** Resourcing the Field: Housing for People
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December 3, 2025
Housing affordability has become a central issue in US politics today. And no wonder! For tens of millions of people across the nation, the price of housing—whether rented or owned—is out of reach. So in today’s Resourcing the Field newsletter, we look at what nonprofits, communities, and movements can do to sustain themselves by supporting quality housing that is affordable to all.
Social housing—that is, housing that is treated as a right, not a commodity—could ensure long-term affordability. Dr. Seumalu Elora Raymond writes about how the rise of private equity in residential housing has turbocharged a lack of housing affordability, and offers policy solutions ([link removed]) in response. Fernando Abarca from Right to the City in Los Angeles offers a complementary account, centering the vital role that tenant unions can play ([link removed]) in advancing sustainable models of housing like community land trusts and housing cooperatives that capture the value of real estate equity gains for community benefit.
Unsurprisingly, immigrants struggle greatly with housing issues. To stave off gentrification, many turn to the community stewardship of land, housing, and business. J.M. Wong offers insights from community organizing among Asian Americans ([link removed]) in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District, while Luz Zambrano brings us a story of organizing among Colombian and other Latin American immigrants ([link removed]) in Greater Boston to develop community-owned businesses and housing that is kept permanently affordable through a community land trust.
In reading these articles, I encourage you to reflect on how to resource housing justice and housing affordability in your own community.
Steve Dubb
Senior Editor
Economic Justice
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** Must-Read Articles
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Confronting the Private Equity Menace to Restore Housing Affordability
by Dr. Seumalu Elora Raymond
Private equity has become a leading driver of affordable housing shortages. But advocates have many tools available that they can use to establish housing as a human right.
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From Tenant Power to Social Housing: Pathways to a Just Housing System
by Fernando Abarca
Rental housing can be precarious, but organizing through tenant unions is helping renters maintain their homes—and can be a powerful tool for land and housing justice.
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Resisting Gentrification in Seattle: The Fight for Community Stewardship of Land
by J.M. Wong
What does land justice mean in a diverse Asian American neighborhood in Seattle? It starts with a simple yet complicated concept: the community stewardship of land.
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How Immigrants Are Creating a New World in the Shell of the Old
by Luz Zambrano
In Boston, two immigrant groups are organizing to build solidarity economies in their communities where human needs, life, and the common good are at the center.
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