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3 affordable housing projects that serve as social catalysts

BD+C

“Eleven million people in this country are paying more than half of their income for rent, and these are low-income people,” says Richard Burns, CEO of the NHP Foundation, a national not-for-profit provider of affordable housing. Many of these people are one medical bill or one car breakdown away from being homeless,” Burns adds.

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Measurement Fails in Business, Part II: Real-World Examples and Solutions

Pro Builder

Steel’s South Chicago Works, the world’s largest structural steel mill at the time, employing 20,000 workers. To balance the material coming out, we would pile excess product without recording it, in a massive storage area when exceeding quota and then draw from it when we fell short. Measurement Fails, Part I.

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