Affordable Housing Institute : US

Regarding Jones v. LA, about which I posted yesterday, I indulged in some fanciful con-law speculation:
 
For if rousting the homeless is cruel and unusual punishment (the majority’s basis for its ruling), is the court therefore obligated to conclude that leaving the homeless who “are not on the streets of Skid Row by informed choice” on […]

Last week the oft-overturned Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, via a 2-1 ruling, handed down a decision that is already sending shock waves through Los Angeles politics.  As the Los Angeles Times reported it:
 
A federal appeals court ruled Friday that the Los Angeles Police Department cannot arrest people for sitting, lying or sleeping on public […]

In the last decade, the term workforce housing has not only arrived in the lexicon, it has become a politician’s preoccupation in both the UK (where it is more commonly called ‘key worker’ housing) and in the US.  The definitions vary (sometimes unwisely stretched to local bureaucrats) but always encompasses:
 

Police
Teachers
Doctors and nurses
Firefighters

They’re all essential
 
Communities are […]

[Continued from yesterday’s Part 1.]
 
Why are non-profit mergers so rare here in the US?  Beyond fear of business (touched on in Part 1), one challenge is balancing the complexity-scale tension:
 

The complexity-scale tension
 
Just as form follows function, the structure of a successful economic organization is a function of its need to address two distinct dimensions of […]

Should non-profits fear merger?
 

“My, what high overhead you have, my dear.”
 

If not, why have they been so rare?

Bringing efficiency to mission is a balancing act, but business gurus such as Michael Porter have emphasized that in a world of finite social resources, philanthropy too must be entrepreneurial. That efficiency is often […]