Download or read book The Housing Crisis and the Third Sector written by Karna Lorraine Wong and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Great Recession, nonprofits experienced unprecedented financial strain while demand for their services increased (Anheier, 2007; Golden et al., 2009; Johnson, 2011). This research focuses on nonprofit housing development organizations (NHDOs) in California during the years 2000-2010. NHDOs typically develop and manage housing, in addition to providing social services for low-income persons. Over the past 20 years, many NHDOs have struggled to maintain adequate capital and operating reserves to preserve their affordable housing stock (Bratt et al., 1998). For NHDOs, these financial issues were exacerbated by the housing and economic crises, in addition to the recent elimination of the State of California Redevelopment Agency funds in 2012. A few researchers have studied the effects of the economic crisis on the nonprofit sector, but none have systematically analyzed outcomes for NHDOs. This dissertation is divided into five chapters: Chapter 1: Literature Review, Chapter 2: Research Methods, Chapter 3: Bivariate and Multivariate Analysis, Chapter 4: Qualitative Interviews, and Chapter 5: Analysis of Findings. My dissertation addresses the research question: how were nonprofit housing development organizations affected by the Great Recession that began in 2007? It quantifies the effects of the housing and economic crises on NHDOs regarding survival and revenue. This mixed-methods research has: (1) a quantitative component with bivariate and multivariate analyses from Internal Revenue Service (IRS) 990 tax form data of about 800 nonprofit housing developers, and (2) a qualitative component with findings from 18 interviews of executive directors and managers of nonprofit developers and housing associations to assess how and why these organizations experienced variations in survival and revenue. In many ways, the factors that determined a NHDOs' sustainabilty and performance were similar to for-profit and other nonprofit entities. For example, older and larger organizations with more staff and revenue tended to fare better during this ten-year time period. Other factors were unique to the affordable housing sector. The region and type of housing developed by the nonprofit affected outcomes. For example, NHDOs who were predominately general housing developers (rather than specialists in senior or rental housing) were less likely to survive. NHDOs in urban areas, such as the Los Angeles and San Francisco regions, had higher survival rates. In contrast, NHDOs in exurban and rural areas, e.g. the San Joaquin Valley region, were less likely to survive. An unexpected finding was reliance on government funding was negatively associated with NHDO's survival and revenue. This may be an indicator of how government funding decreased or was unstable during this time period. With funding cutbacks on all levels of government (federal, state, and local), NHDOs had to strategically manage their housing development pipeline, real estate portfolios, staffing levels, programs, and services. Organizations that survived and performed well exhibited the following characteristics: (1) diversified funding sources, (2) benefited from agglomeration effects, (3) implemented adaptive management, and (4) established partnerships, joint ventures, and mergers. The lessons and management tactics learned from these NHDOs inform other organizations about how to survive and thrive during tough economic times.
Download or read book The Affordable City written by John Emmeus Davis and published by . This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forced in the 1980s to develop new sources of funding, municipalities are now creating new strategies for producing housing citizens can afford. One of the most promising of those schemes is third sector housing, a private non market alternative to publicly owned projects. The ten essays comprising The Affordable City provide case studies of political struggles to move toward this model in such cities as Burlington, Boston, and San Diego. John Emmeus Davis has directed housing policy in Burlington, Vermont, for over a decade. He has also taught at Tufts, New Hampshire College, and MIT.
Download or read book Third Sector Housing and Housing Affordability written by Martin Evers and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shelter and Society written by C. Theodore Koebel and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1998-04-23 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dissatisfied with the performance of government and the for-profit sector in the provision of low-income housing, housing policymakers have increasingly turned to the nonprofit sector. The nonprofit housing sector, despite its small size in the United States and its serious problems with production and management capacity, benefits in the public eye from the positive aura of volunteerism, coupled with the vague promise of shifting governmental fiscal burdens to philanthropy and private charity. But despite the favorable aura of nonprofit housing, governments and housing advocates in the United States display limited understanding of the nonprofit sector. This book addresses this deficiency by examining theory, research, and policy. It moves beyond descriptions of current nonprofit housing providers and the programs they use, to a deeper level of understanding of the nonprofit housing sector, providing the policymaker, administrator, and advocate, as well as the scholar and student, with the theoretical and research grounding from which to develop better policies, practices, and research. Contributors to this book include Peter J. Boelhouwer, Rachel G. Bratt, Peter Dreier, Robert Dyck, Scott Hebert, C. Theodore Koebel, William M. Rohe, Bishwapriya Sanyal, Richard Steinberg, Harry M. H. van der Heiden, James Wallace, and Robert B. Whittlesey.
Download or read book The Impact of the Third Sector in the UK written by Rachel Wigglesworth and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Whose Housing Crisis written by Gallent, Nick and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2019-04-24 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the root of the housing crisis is the problematic relationship that individuals and economies share with residential property. Housing’s social purpose, as home, is too often relegated behind its economic function, as asset, able to offer a hedge against weakening pensions or source of investment and equity release for individuals, or guarantee rising public revenues, sustain consumer confidence and provide evidence of ‘growth’ for economies. The refunctioning of housing in the twentieth century is a cause of great social inequality, as housing becomes a place to park and extract wealth and as governments do all they can to keep house prices on an upward track.
Download or read book The Role of the Third Sector in Community Housing written by Clavel Reyes Albay and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bringing Home the Housing Crisis written by Mel Nowicki and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2023-04-27 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often portrayed as an apolitical space, this book demonstrates that home is in fact a highly political concept, with a range of groups in society excluded from a ‘right to home’ under current UK policies. Drawing on resident interviews and analysis of political and media attitudes across three case studies – the criminalisation of squatting, the bedroom tax and family homelessness – the book explores the ways in which legislative and policy changes dismantle people’s rights to secure, decent and affordable housing by framing them as undeserving.
Download or read book Using Evidence to End Homelessness written by Teixeira, Lígia and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2020-04-29 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Available open access under CC-BY-NC license. Homelessness is unequivocally devastating. In the UK, people affected by homelessness are ten times more likely to die than their peers in the general population, yet we still miss important opportunities to adequately address the issue. The Centre for Homelessness Impact brings together this urgent book gathering the insights and experiences of leaders in government, academia and the third sector to present new evidence-based strategies to end homelessness. Demonstrating why and how a new movement is needed that embraces data and evidence as integral to ending homelessness effectively, this book provides crucial methods to underpin future policy, practice and funding decisions.
Download or read book A Guide to Housing Resource Organizations Serving Third Sector Groups written by City Living (Ottawa, Ont.) and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Housing Crisis written by Peter Malpass and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1986 at a time when Britain was facing a major housing crisis, this book, containing much original research, examines the crisis and analyses the reasons for it, providing foundations for the construction of effective new policies. As relevant now as when it was first published the book discusses under investment in housing stock, in both the public and private sectors, renovation and maintenance and neglect of particular disadvantaged groups such as the elderly, the single homeless and those in low income groups.
Download or read book The Third Sector as a Renewable Resource for Europe written by Lester M Salamon and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-09 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a critical account of the third sector and its future in Europe. It offers an original conceptualization of the third sector in its European manifestations alongside an overview of its major contours, including its structure, sources of support, and recent trends. It also assesses the impact of this sector in Europe which considers its contributions to European economic development, citizen well-being and human development.The Third Sector As A Renewable Resource for Europe presents the findings of the Third Sector Impact (TSI) project funded by the European Union's Seventh Framework Program (FP7). It recognises that in a time of social and economic distress, as well as enormous pressures on governmental budgets, the third sector and volunteering represent a unique 'renewable resource' for social and economic problem-solving and civic engagement in Europe. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.
Download or read book Den ny Eventyrbog written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Factors Related to Successful Third Sector Housing written by University of Winnipeg. Institute of Urban Studies and published by . This book was released on 198? with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Austerity and the Third Sector in Greece written by Jennifer Clarke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organised civil society in Greece is generally regarded as weak with rankings for associational density, volunteerism and levels of social capital traditionally among the lowest in Europe. Austerity and the Third Sector in Greece explores the context behind the statistics and general perceptions of a society of takers, not givers. Stereotypes of a country living beyond its means have been exacerbated by the Eurozone crisis but, since 2008, there has in fact been a great proliferation of organised civil society initiatives in the country. Has the financial crisis seen a belated awakening of Greek civil society? Offering a broad overview of contemporary civil society in Greece this book explores how various characteristics of the country's socio-political context have affected the development of the third sector and examines the effect of the economic crisis on it. Expert contributors combine macro-level analyses with local case studies to form a fascinating new study on the influences of national and regional context on civil society development. Their findings provide not only for a better understanding of similar movements, but also contribute to wider academic debates on societal responses to economic crises.
Download or read book Homelessness in Hong Kong written by Ho-Man Ng and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation, "Homelessness in Hong Kong: Failure in the Co-operation Between Public and Third Sector?" by Ho-man, Ng, 伍浩文, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. Abstract: The housing price is increasing sharply since 2009. To respond for the rising housing price, the government in Hong Kong has tried to increase the housing supply and stabilize the housing price. At the same time, the number of street sleepers has also increased. Despite the efforts of the government and third sector organizations, the homelessness in Hong Kong is not yet to be tackled successfully. In view of the above issues, the literatures on homelessness have been studied. The literature review suggests that homelessness is multi-dimensions and caused by various reasons. It is observed that, the interactions between the government and the third sector organizations in homelessness are likely under-researched. On the other hand, apart from the government in Hong Kong, many countries have tried to tackle the homeless issues. In this paper, the homeless situations in Hong Kong, England and the United States will be studied and analyzed. Also, the weaknesses of homeless assistances in Hong Kong will be examined, and certain insights from the international experiences in homeless assistances will be drawn. Regarding the above interactions, this paper has attempted to examine the co-operation between public and third sector organizations in the homelessness of Hong Kong. This study argues that, the homelessness in Hong Kong is not tackled successfully, by reason of the failure in the co-operation between the government and third sector organizations. Hypotheses and analytical framework are suggested for exploring the above co-operation. Subjects: Homelessness - China - Hong Kong
Download or read book Investing in Interventions That Address Non Medical Health Related Social Needs written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2019-09-27 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With U.S. health care costs projected to grow at an average rate of 5.5 percent per year from 2018 to 2027, or 0.8 percentage points faster than the gross domestic product, and reach nearly $6.0 trillion per year by 2027, policy makers and a wide range of stakeholders are searching for plausible actions the nation can take to slow this rise and keep health expenditures from consuming an ever greater portion of U.S. economic output. While health care services are essential to heath, there is growing recognition that social determinants of health are important influences on population health. Supporting this idea are estimates that while health care accounts for some 10 to 20 percent of the determinants of health, socioeconomic factors and factors related to the physical environment are estimated to account for up to 50 percent of the determinants of health. Challenges related to the social determinants of health at the individual level include housing insecurity and poor housing quality, food insecurity, limitations in access to transportation, and lack of social support. These social needs affect access to care and health care utilization as well as health outcomes. Health care systems have begun exploring ways to address non-medical, health-related social needs as a way to reduce health care costs. To explore the potential effect of addressing non-medical health-related social needs on improving population health and reducing health care spending in a value-driven health care delivery system, the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine held a full-day public workshop titled Investing in Interventions that Address Non-Medical, Health-Related Social Needs on April 26, 2019, in Washington, DC. The objectives of the workshop were to explore effective practices and the supporting evidence base for addressing the non-medical health-related social needs of individuals, such as housing and food insecurities; review assessments of return on investment (ROI) for payers, healthy systems, and communities; and identify gaps and opportunities for research and steps that could help to further the understanding of the ROI on addressing non-medical health-related social needs. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop.
