This site was created sometime in 2022. I used to have a piece about nonprofits published here, specifically why they don't work. It was verbose and kind of pretentious. I started revising it around 2023, but never got around to finishing the draft. Fortunately, Meagan Day, an associate editor at Jacobin (no affiliation), wrote an article that expressed my original thoughts in a much better way. The article, “Woke” or Not, Philanthropy Is a Great Deal for Big Tech, describes how the rich use philanthrophy and identity politics to maintain existing inequalities in society. Day accurately pointed out the conflicting interests between activists' livelihoods and the funding they depend on.
To add my own thoughts, I would suggest looking up some of the people who sit on the boards of your local charities or nonprofits. It wouldn't surprise me if the people involved in these places are often themselves wealthy (e.g. business executives, managers, professionals, and so on). Nonprofits are full of PMCs and sinecures who are only interested in addressing symptoms (e.g. homelessness), not the disease (e.g. privatization of housing, lack of rent controls, lack of public housing, lack of good jobs). How many politicians are landlords? How many board members are against economic redistribution, or more democratic workplaces, or claim that either of these wouldn't work? How many of them have participated or would participate in union busting?
To get back to the point, housing is an economic issue within an economic system. And economic systems can be "[...] discerned, understood and, if necessary, altered or changed". (source)