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Private Sector, Public Good: The Necessity of Economic Sustainability in Architectural Activism
"The most successful solutions to the problem of disenfranchisement empower individuals to be self-sufficient; self-sufficiency halts these problems' cyclical nature. It is less often recognized that service organizations also require self-sufficiency. Currently, work for the homeless and displaced is ghettoized to the nonprofit, volunteer, and governmental sectors. It depends upon the delegation of federal money, foundation grants, and private philanthropy; organizations purporting to catalyze self-sufficiency are themselves dependent on charity. Funding runs out, services are cut, and design quality suffers along with the poor and displaced. A solution to this problem lies in the collaboration of the nonprofit and private sectors. They can benefit from each other's strengths and create new business models for architects to address the needs of the disenfranchised."