Housing and Community Development

Financing Slum Rehabilitation in Mumbai: A Nonprofit Caught in the Middle (Epilogue)

Publication Date: April 01, 2003

In November 2001, an Indian non-governmental organization dedicated to improving the lives and housing of the slum-dwellers of Bombay (Mumbai) learned that there were potential financial problems with a major new housing project in which it had...

Financing Slum Rehabilitation in Mumbai: A Nonprofit Caught in the Middle

Publication Date: April 01, 2003

In November 2001, an Indian non-governmental organization dedicated to improving the lives and housing of the slum-dwellers of Bombay (Mumbai) learned that there were potential financial problems with a major new housing project in which it had...

Coastal Ventures Limited Partnership: Balancing a Sustainable Investment Strategy with a Social Mission

Publication Date: October 01, 2002

Nat Henshaw, president of CEI Ventures Inc. (CVI) a subsidiary of the nonprofit Coastal Enterprises Inc. (CEI), was involved in a balancing act. He was a manager of a for-profit venture capital fund, Coastal Ventures Limited Partnership (CVLP),...

Standards for Child Sponsorship Agencies: Part B

Publication Date: October 01, 2002

In the spring of 1998, nonprofit agencies known as “child-sponsorship” organizations found themselves on the defensive. The agencies —dedicated to raising charitable funds in the United States to support children and their communities in poor,...

Standards for Child Sponsorship Agencies: Part A

Publication Date: October 01, 2002

In the spring of 1998, nonprofit agencies known as child-sponsorship organizations found themselves on the defensive. The agencies dedicated to raising charitable funds in the United States to support children and their communities in poor,...

Seeking Sustainability: Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago Faces Financial Challenge

Publication Date: August 01, 2002

Nearly 30 years after it was first incorporated to help stabilize and improve older, declining parts of the city, Neighborhood Housing Services (NHS) of Chicago had become among the best-known and most-respected organizations of its kind. Its...

Women's Thrift Cooperatives in Andhra Pradesh

Publication Date: July 01, 2002

After more than 10 years of operation, the Women's Thrift Cooperatives (WTCs) in the impoverished Karimnagar and Warangal districts of Andhra Pradesh are an established part of the lives of their women members. As such they represent...

The PennTowne Dilemma and the Friends Rehabilitation Corporation: A Community Development Organization and the Prospect of Profit (Sequel)

Publication Date: January 01, 2002

This epilogue accompanies case 1666.0. Forty years after its founding, the Friends Rehabilitation Program Inc., a Quaker--affiliated nonprofit housing developer and management firm in Philadelphia, finds itself facing an unexpected dilemma: what...

The PennTowne Dilemma and the Friends Rehabilitation Corporation: A Community Development Organization and the Prospect of Profit

Publication Date: January 01, 2002

Forty years after its founding, the Friends Rehabilitation Program Inc., a Quaker-affiliated nonprofit housing developer and management firm in Philadelphia, finds itself facing an unexpected dilemma: what should an organization, founded to help...

The Constitutional Right to Housing in South Africa: The Government of the Republic of South Africa vs. Irene Grootboom (Sequel)

Publication Date: October 01, 2001

This is an 8-page sequel to HKS Case 1627.0. The 1996 "post-apartheid" constitution of South Africa enumerates a variety of specific rights, among them a guarantee of access to housing and a right to shelter for children. Yet many millions of...

The Constitutional Right to Housing in South Africa: The Government of the Republic of South Africa vs. Irene Grootboom

Publication Date: October 01, 2001

The 1996 "post-apartheid" constitution of South Africa enumerates a variety of specific rights -- among them a guarantee of access to housing and a right to shelter for children. Yet many millions of South Africans continued to live in...

Sound Move: The Debate Over Seattle's Regional Transit System (B)

Publication Date: October 01, 2001

The idea that the introduction or expansion of urban light rail systems could ease traffic congestion and air pollution has caught the imagination of many in American cities in recent decades. Yet, at the same time, questions about the...