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  • 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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📬 LP Network Download | Eviction protections, advancing CRE, new public safety video tool & more! | Aug 2024

Here’s a look at some of what’s happening across the Local Progress network this month.
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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

Good Cause Workshop Recap

On Tuesday, August 20, Local Progress held a virtual Good Cause workshop with coalition partners Housing Justice for All and For The Many. We shared organizing tactics, lessons learned, and strategies on how to replicate these wins across the state. Fresh off their housing victories this summer, we heard from local leaders in Kingston and Albany on how they won Good Cause in their cities.
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  • School Boards

NEW TOOLKIT! 🧰 Advancing culturally responsive education in your district.

The “Advancing Culturally Responsive Curriculum” toolkit is a step-by-step guide to help teachers and school board members ensure their school curriculum reflects the diversity of the communities they serve.
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  • Leveraging Federal Resources

New Tools Help Governments Tap Clean Energy Windfall

Local governments have a historic opportunity to leverage federal funding for local clean energy projects that advance racial, economic, and climate justice. Check out how to get started!
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LPCO State Download 🌟 | Welcome to Local Progress CO’s first State Download ⛰️✨

Check out what our LPCO members have been up to around the state!
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LPCA State Download 🌟 | Local Progress CA’s very first State Download 📣✨

Local Progress CA’s very first State Download 📣✨
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The Best Moments from Our 2024 National Convening in Oakland!

This was our largest and most exciting national convening to date – with more than 420 local leaders, partners, and allies, and 50+ different strategy meetings, workshops, and site visits, covering everything from workers’ rights, community responder programs, and social housing to welcoming new arrivals, federal implementation, and navigating the challenges and opportunities in elected office.
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📬 LP Network Download | Bans on rental price fixing tech, historic federal funding opportunities & more! | July 2024

Here’s a look at some of what’s happening across the Local Progress network this month.
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  • Housing

San Francisco Passes First-in-Nation Municipal Ban on Rent-Fixing Software

Today, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously adopted the nation’s first local ordinance, sponsored by Board President Aaron Peskin, banning the sale or use of software which enables price collusion among large corporate landlords for the purpose of rent-gouging.
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  • Housing

Rigged: Corporate behemoths are using junk fees and technology to keep prices high

Algorithmic price fixing has played a significant role in double-digit rent increases across the country. These inflated rents are exacerbated by consolidation in local housing markets that leads to both higher rates of eviction and higher profits for landlords.
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  • Public Safety

Cleveland Councilwomen Join National Program to Forge New Paths in Public Safety

In a move reflecting a growing trend across various American cities, Cleveland City Councilwomen Rebecca Maurer and Stephanie Howse-Jones are stepping into a program that could change the game for public safety.
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  • Housing

Cities lead bans on algorithmic rent hikes as states lag behind

Minneapolis on Thursday has become the fourth U.S. city to ban algorithmic rental price-fixing software, joining San Francisco, Philadelphia and Berkeley, California, in a growing wave of legislation aimed to protect renters from rental price-gouging.
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Portland City Council member Angelita Morillo is championing a local ban on the use of algorithms to set rents, following a U.S. Justice Department antitrust lawsuit.Beth Nakamura
  • Housing

Portland City Council weighs ban on using algorithms to set rents

Portland, Oregon could soon be the next city to ban rental price fixing!
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  • Immigrant Justice

Hundreds of State Officials Oppose Anti-Sanctuary City Act

Nearly 400 state and local electeds nationwide sent a letter to Congress today urging them to vote NO on HR 32 – a dangerous bill that would strip our communities of essential funding simply for undertaking reasonable policies that make all of us safer.
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  • Housing

LP Members & Union Leaders Call To Overturn WPA Veto

Municipal Officials join labor leaders to call out the Governor for rejecting this Common-Sense legislation
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  • Public Safety

Statement: National Network of Local Officials Denounce Unjustified Arrest of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka

In response to the reported arrest and subsequent release of Newark Mayor and Local Progress member Ras Baraka, Essex County Commissioner and Local Progress Board Member A’Dorian Murray-Thomas released the following statement. 
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Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty who was sworn into office on Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023 speaking at the All Square restaurant in Minneapolis on Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023 where supporters gathered to celebrate her election. Mshale Staff Photo by Panashe Matemba-Mutasa
  • Public Safety

Statement: Amid Federal Threats, Local Leaders Stand Strong for True Civil Rights

In response to the Trump Administration’s so-called “civil rights” investigation into Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty’s Office, Local Progress released this statement.
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  • Housing

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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  • 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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