Aja Couchois Duncan

Earlier this month, community land trust advocates gathered in Washington, DC, to assess the state of the national affordable housing movement. A year ago, hopes were high that the federal government might make transformative investments in affordable housing. Now, the tone was different. “It is struggle. It’s a journey. It will be a marathon,” noted Tony Pickett, CEO of Grounded Solutions Network, the organization that sponsored the conference.

Click here to download this article as it appears in the magazine, with accompanying artwork. Editors’ note: This article is from the Spring 2022 issue of the Nonprofit Quarterly, “Going Pro-Black: What Would a Pro-Black Sector Sound, Look, Taste, and Feel Like?” Love, A Forgotten Tongue In Measuring Love in the Journey for Justice, Shiree Teng and Sammy Nuñez “call upon love as an antidote to injustice.”1 But too often in our equity-based systems-change work, love is a forgotten tongue.

[Ugly Duckling Presse; 2020, Second Edition] “I am a collection of desire precariously housed.” –  Levitsky, Neighbor Neighbor is an old friend. Published first in 2009 by Ugly Duckling Presse, Neighbor situated an architecture for intimacy: an apartment building all glass and brick, its brittle and seismically unstable form. It was post 9/11 and the United States had been waging a war in Iraq, on Iraq, on its people, for nearly a decade.