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LPPA State Download ❄️| rental price fixing, national convening, member spotlight, and more! | Winter 2024
Check out the latest in our final download for the year!
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LPCA State Download ❄️ | Housing, homelessness response, and collective growth!
Check out what LPCA has been up to!
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LPCO State Download ⚡️ | Collective bargaining webinar, state strategy meeting, PGA recap, & more! | December 2024
Learn what our LPCO members have been up to around the state!
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LPTX State Download ❄️ | Looking back at our wins and gearing up for the fight ahead | December 2024
See how our LPTX Chapter has been expanding their reach across the state and learn how you can get involved with us in the new year!
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LPMN State Download 📣 | LPMN Twin Cities Meetup, new toolkit, LPMN transitions, and more! | December 2024
Check out the latest in our final download for the year!
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LPNC State Download 📣 | LPNC Progressive Governance Academy, local wins, and more! | December 2024
Learn what our LPNC members have been up to around the state!
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2024 Year in Review
We are proud to share the impact of our work from this past year in this Year in Review.
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CA Local Electeds Call Out Governor for Harmful Encampment Directives
Governor Newsom threatened to withhold funding from localities that didn't comply with his callous directives to clear homeless encampments. Earlier this week, our California members sent a letter to the governor demanding he retract these threats.
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Road To Good Cause Campaign Scores 11 Victories Across Upstate New York
The coordinated campaign of local officials expand critical renter protections to thousands of tenants, setting their sights on Rochester next.
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LP’s 2025 National Convening in Chicago, IL on July 10 – 12
As we continue to grieve, process, and respond to the outcome of the presidential election, one thing is clear: our incredible network of local elected officials is more important than ever.
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Left Politics in California: An Interview with Gayle McLaughlin
An interview with Richmond City Councilmember Gayle McLaughlin about her work to hold polluters accountable.
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Opinion: The Right to Privacy: A Call for Accountability in Baltimore’s Surveillance Practices
Baltimore must act now to create a system that prioritizes equity and transparency over control, writes LP Board Member and Baltimore City Councilmember Kristerfer Burnett.
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In The News
At Local Progress, we seek to make the aspirational pragmatic by showing how government can be a tool to create just and equitable outcomes and reshaping peoples’ understanding of governing from an institution to a collective responsibility. Here are some highlights of our media coverage:
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Left Politics in California: An Interview with Gayle McLaughlin
An interview with Richmond City Councilmember Gayle McLaughlin about her work to hold polluters accountable.
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Opinion: The Right to Privacy: A Call for Accountability in Baltimore’s Surveillance Practices
Baltimore must act now to create a system that prioritizes equity and transparency over control, writes LP Board Member and Baltimore City Councilmember Kristerfer Burnett.
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Mad? Sad? Motivated? 60+ MN Orgs Working to Make the Next 4 Years (and Then Some) Suck Less.
Check out LPMN's feature in this sprawling list of organizations, groups, and collectives who are determined, political headwinds be damned, to make Minnesota a better place.
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Big Cities Take Up Fight Against Algorithm-Based Rents
The federal government’s price-fixing lawsuit against rental-software firm RealPage could take years to resolve. Rather than wait, some cities and states are already cracking down on the company.
press Releases
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Road To Good Cause Campaign Scores 11 Victories Across Upstate New York
The coordinated campaign of local officials expand critical renter protections to thousands of tenants, setting their sights on Rochester next.
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NEW REPORT: How Local Government Can Stand Up for Workers When States Try to Stand in Their Way
This new report for Labor Day 2024 highlights ways local elected officials can advance workers rights even when facing both hostile state preemption and federal labor law preemption.
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How Localities Use Community Responder Programs to Keep People Safe
This new video from Local Progress and Local Progress Impact Lab focuses on three specific localities: Durham, Oakland, and Albuquerque to explain what community responder programs are, how they work, and why hundreds of localities are starting to adopt them.
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After Grants Pass: organizing to house all our neighbors
In response to the Supreme Court's cruel decision in Grants Pass v. Johnson, we will continue to organize for housing for all.
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Local Progress Condemns Cruel Supreme Court Decision in Grants Pass v. Johnson
In response to the Supreme Court’s decision in Grants Pass v. Johnson, Local Progress put out the following statement.
