Issue Spotlights
All across the country, local governments are advancing the most innovative solutions to our biggest problems and creating new models of governance. At Local Progress, we work on a broad intersectional progressive agenda driven by a vision of racial and economic justice.

ECONOMIC JUSTICE

Everyone deserves safe jobs and family sustaining wages. At the local level, we can win safer workplaces, higher wages, and better benefits for all.

Home Rule

Local governments need home rule authority to address the pressing problems facing their communities. New abusive state preemption suppresses local organizing for our agenda for racial & economic justice.

HOUSING

Housing is an essential need. Across the country, localities are working to advance renter protections, increase affordable housing, and build thriving neighborhoods.

IMMIGRANT JUSTICE

We’re fighting for a country that honors all families by protecting undocumented communities and ensuring they have access to the resources they need.

JUST RECOVERY

With the American Rescue Plan, localities can and must invest in community needs and build sustainable infrastructure centered on equity.

PUBLIC SAFETY

Everyone deserves to feel and be safe. Across the country, localities can build real safety by investing in communities and addressing the root causes of instability.

SCHOOL BOARDS

Thriving public schools are the bedrock of a just, multiracial society. With roughly 15,000 school districts in the US, the opportunity & necessity to organize behind a common agenda is clear.

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