- Housing
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Affordable Homes, Stable Communities: Our 2026 Housing Convening in Seattle
For the first time ever, leaders from all three Local Progress identity caucuses came together to build community and strategize for the organizing ahead.
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📬 LP Network Download | Stepping up to protect immigrant families | March 2026
Here’s a look at some of what’s happening across the Local Progress network this month.
- Leveraging Federal Resources
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SXSW Recap: A Local Progress First
Find out what happened this year at South by Southwest
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LPMN State Download ❤️🔥 | Fighting for Community Safety | Winter 2026
Learn more about our bold leadership taking action across the state!
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LPTX State Download 🌟 | Upcoming Chapter Events & Texas Collaborative Governance Lab Launch | Winter 2026
Learn more about our bold leadership taking action across the state!
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📬 LP Network Download | Local electeds on the frontline of change | February 2026
Here’s a look at some of what’s happening across the Local Progress network this month.
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Learning and Growing Together in California
Local Progress members and partners from across California met for our first-ever State Strategy Meeting in Long Beach.
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LPNC State Download 🔥| Building a stronger North Carolina | Winter 2026
Learn more about our bold leadership taking action across the state!
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LPCO State Download 🌱 | Responding to ICE, upcoming convenings | Winter 2026
Learn more about our bold leadership taking action across the state!
- Leveraging Federal Resources
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No Secret Police: How Local Electeds Nationwide can Protect their Communities from ICE
Want to Protect your Community from Secret ICE? Start Here.
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LPPA State Download ☕| Building power and resistance | Winter 2026
Learn more about our bold leadership taking action across the state!
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LPMI State Download ⚡| Data Center Wins, ICE-Free Zones & Bold Local Leadership | Winter 2026
Learn more about our bold leadership taking action across the state!
Have a Media Inquiry?
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Want to get in touch with us for a story? Reach us at press@localprogress.org.
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:
- Economic Justice, Housing, Immigrant Justice
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The World Cup Is Coming. Our Cities Must Protect Their People.
Op-ed: As elected officials from U.S. host cities, we know that local governments are the last line of defense against human rights abuses during the FIFA World Cup.
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Greg Casar Is Organizing to Win
A must-read feature of former LP Co-Chair and now Congressman Greg Casar.
- Housing
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Multiple Cities Across the Country Are Resisting Rent Algorithms
Hoboken and Jersey city are two of the latest localities to join the nationwide movement to tackle corporate greed in the rental market and ban algorithmic rental price fixing.
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This Organization Proved There Was an Alternative to the Police. Now It’s Being Defunded.
Portland, OR proved what we all know to be true: we keep us safe. LP's Reynold Graham talks to The Nation about Portland's program.
press Releases
- Immigrant Justice
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Statement: Local Leaders Applaud Decision to Affirm Birthright Citizenship in the United States
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Statement: Local Progress responds to Department of Justice Charges Against Southern Poverty Law Center
