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Austin City Councilmember Vanessa Fuentes speaking during a virtual press briefing.
  • Home Rule

Texans Warn Death Star Law Silences Communities

At a press briefing organized by Local Progress Texas, Every Texan, Workers Defense Project, and the Texas AFL-CIO, leaders talked about the devastating impact the Death Star law has for everyday Texans.
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Empowering Leadership & Transformative Change: Progressive Governance Lab and Our Partnership with Bay Rising

The partnership between Bay Rising and Local Progress Impact Lab through the Progressive Governance Lab brings together the power of grassroots activism, collaborative governance strategy, and policy expertise.
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Image of the El Paso skyline with a desert foreground.
  • Home Rule

El Paso and other Texas cities are getting ready for Abbott’s ‘Death Star Law’

El Paso County Commissioner David Stout, along with LP members representing Austin and San Antonio, explain how the Death Star Law will hinder their ability to meet their communities' most urgent needs.
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  • Housing

Two New Resources Help Electeds and Community Members Advocate for Strong Rent Stabilization Policies

A new rent stabilization toolkit in partnership with Power Switch Action and a messaging guide to support local elected officials developing their own ordinances.
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Illustration by Lincoln Agnew of the Texas flag with black and white photos collaged within it, including an image of an eye.
  • Home Rule

Texas Lege’s ‘Death Star’ Bill Is the Latest to Target Austin

“It is important to me as a local policymaker to keep the faith that we will continue to fight for our communities despite all the barriers that the state Legislature wants to put on localities,” said Austin City Councilmember Vanessa Fuentes.
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A photograph of downtown Ithaca, New York featuring old buildings and pedestrians walking and biking along the street.
  • Climate Justice, Economic Justice, Leveraging Federal Resources

New Resource Helps Local Electeds Maximize Federal Funds for Equity

Our newly released memo shares tools and best practices to help local electeds maximize federal funding opportunities to advance equity.
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A masked person holding up a sign that says "not going back."
  • Home Rule

Texas Cities Are Getting Ready For The State’s ‘Death Star’ Law

Three LP members representing El Paso, Austin, and San Antonio speak out against the Death Star Law -- warning of the detrimental local, state, and national implications of such a far-reaching power grab.
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  • Leveraging Federal Resources

Using Federal Funds to Create More Just Communities in North Carolina

ARPA provided localities with a historic level of funding. Local electeds across North Carolina have allocated those funds towards a just recovery and look towards the future on how to leverage other federal programs to best support their communities.
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  • Housing

74 Local Elected Leaders Urge Federal Government to Protect Tenants

Over 70 local elected officials submitted a comment calling on the federal government to pass tenant protections for enterprise-backed multifamily properties.
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A photo of a group of people holding a sign saying "SA STANDS" in Bexar County, Texas after the creation of an immigrant legal defense fund.
  • Immigrant Justice

📬 The Network Download | Immigrant justice edition | July 2023

Check out the work our network is doing to advance immigrant justice!
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Arial view of the Texas State Capitol lit up at night.
  • Home Rule

The ‘Death Star’ Bill is About Kneecapping Democracy in Texas

LP's Kara Sheehan weighs in on what the Death Star Law means for localities across Texas.
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Ald. Rossana Rodriguez Sanchez (33rd) reacts at a City Council meeting on March 15, 2023.
  • Public Safety

Cops Should Not Respond To Mental Health Emergencies, Experts Say As City Weighs Ordinance

Chicago Ald. Rossana Rodriguez-Sanchez's “Treatment Not Trauma” ordinance would enable the city to handle mental health emergencies without police officers.
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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:

Courtesy of Open Arms of Minnesota| Open Arms delivers free medically tailored meals to critically ill Minnesotans and their loved ones—and that’s just one of the almost 70 orgs here that can use your support.

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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Photograph of a person walking in front a sign that says "APARTMENT FOR RENT STUDIO: Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
  • Housing

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.
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Image of a police car driving (retrieved from the Fayetteville Observer)
  • Public Safety

Do Fayetteville, NC police stop more Black drivers?

LP's former Legal Fellow Kat Kerwin and LPNC's Mario Benavente weigh in on the importance of reducing pretextual stops.
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The Philadelphia City Council Committee on Housing, Neighborhood Development, and Homelessness hearing testimony in chambers.
  • Housing

Council Committee Advances Landlord Anti-Collusion Bill

The Philadelphia City Council advanced a bill introduced by LPPA member Councilmember Nicholas O’Rourke that would ban price-fixing by landlords.
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press Releases

  • Economic Justice

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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  • Public Safety

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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  • Housing

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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  • Housing

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.
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  • Climate Justice, Economic Justice, Home Rule

180+ State and Local Elected Officials Urge Congress to Reject the EATS Act

LP and the State Innovation Exchange (SiX) released letters calling on Congress to protect local and state governments ability to create policy that is responsive to the issues their own communities face in the agricultural industry. 
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