The Healthcare Anchor Network launches as an independent organization
As a new organization, HAN looks forward to deepening its impact in the healthcare sector and reaching a critical mass of health systems adopting as an institutional priority improving community health and well-being.
Family wealth building isn’t enough: We must pursue community wealth building
To address growing wealth inequality, and in particular the racial wealth gap, we must build wealth in our communities. Community wealth building is a new way of thinking about economic development, poverty alleviation, and wealth creation and accumulation.
Revisiting community control of land and housing in the wake of COVID-19
As our housing crisis worsens during the COVID-19 pandemic, we urgently need new approaches and institutions that center permanent affordability, community ownership and control, and the long-term goal of decommodification.
Constructing the Democratic Public Bank: A governance proposal for Los Angeles
How we are building the democratic economy...
Theory and policy for a next system
A community wealth building movement
Climate justice and energy democracy
Next-generation enterprise design
Racial equity and reparative justice
Anchor institution connections
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The Veterans Health Administration—the country’s only fully public, integrated healthcare system—has a lot to tell us about how a national healthcare service for the United States might operate.
Labor movements must pursue a social and economic vision that can address the deep structural inequalities these pandemic years have exposed. Preston gives a glimpse of the exciting possibilities that collaboration with unions could achieve.
A “new direction”: Rediscovering community wealth building in an age of gentrification
New economy advocates must pivot in a new direction that blends place and the democratic economy into a holistic solution that sustains and preserves community over the individual. Ironically, this “new direction” borrows from an idea nearly 50 years old, originating in a tumultuous era of Black activism.
Health innovation policy for the people
The way we promote innovation in the healthcare sector does not meet the real needs of people for equitable access to affordable treatments. There is a better way that takes into account the knowledge and needs of marginalized people.