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This page used to host my thoughts on why nonprofits fail to solve the social problems they're created for. It was too wordy, so I scrapped it. I've since found two Jacobin articles which reflect my original sentiment much better. “Woke” or Not, Philanthropy Is a Great Deal for Big Tech by Meagan Day and Charity Is No Substitute for Economic Rights by Fran Quigley both describe why nonprofits and charities are so prevalent. Nonprofits avoid addressing the profit motives of the people who fund them, which means their direct exploitation of poverty continues to cause social problems in society.
Though both articles are about the United States, we're not much better when it comes to charities and nonprofits in Canada. I encourage you to look into how many politicians, executives, and other elites are involved in charities or nonprofits. How many of these same people collect income from being landlords? Would the board members of your local charity oppose a labour union? How many of them would argue against redistributive policies, that tax the ultra rich and redistribute it to the rest of us?
Generations of homelessness across "developed" societies have been deliberately met with ineffective solutions. Unpopular euphemisms like "houselessness" or "the unhoused" do nothing to change the fact that people are still homeless. It's performative busywork. It draws attention away from the root causes of homelessness: the privatization of housing and construction, a lack of rent controls, and the lack of good jobs.
In the end, the elites and the professional-managerial class maintain the status quo. It's a system that has made and continues to make certain people fat and satisfied. Whatever "progress" they achieve is, at best, moral vanity. At worst, it's money laundering and tax evasion. And of course, the problems that make these organizations possible are always conveniently too big or too complicated to solve.
Well, they're not. We can start by thinking of housing as an economic issue within an economic system. And economic systems can be "[...] discerned, understood and, if necessary, altered or changed". That quote was from Economics as politics, an article by Luke Savage, also a Jacobin contributor.