A bill amended Indiana statutes on a number of housing-related issues, including preempting localities from adopting ordinances on foundation and size requirements for manufactured homes and preempting local ordinances regulating retaliatory acts by landlords.
Read MoreThis fact sheet, produced in partnership with ChangeLab Solutions, summarizes this emerging threat to state and local public health authority and identifies some of the possible outcomes.
Read MoreThe Local Solutions Support Center has compiled short memos summarizing the nature and scope of local authority in each state.
Read MoreThis report reveals how the growing abuse of preemption over the last decade forced many municipalities to start from behind when responding to the pandemic, and highlights the issue areas advocates are preparing to defend from state interference in the months ahead.
Read MoreWe examine the use and merits of the patchwork argument across 10 policy areas and review the evidence around the patchwork argument’s merits.
Read MoreThis resource takes a look at how states and cities responded to the pandemic.
Read More14 authors were tasked with working as advocate-researcher co-authors to produce short articles highlighting recent research findings, emerging issues, and data and research needs across seven policy fields.
Read MoreIn this resource, we examine how, as the Black Lives Matter movement strengthens nationwide and communities push for critical changes to confront racism, preemption has once again emerged as a tool to stifle important local efforts.
Read MoreAs the definition of “public health” expands, so could the ability of public health agencies and officials to address the SDOH and combat a greater variety of public ills.
Read MoreThis fact sheet provides an overview of state and local government authority to regulate and potentially require vaccination.
Read More“Cities and counties across the U.S. are being forced to battle two catastrophes — COVID-19 and the eviction crisis — with their hands tied. In the face of inadequate federal and state responses, local governments are struggling to adopt policies that will keep their communities safe and people in their homes.”
Read MoreIn recent years the Local Solutions Support Center has partnered repeatedly with The Campaign Workshop to create message-tested digital advertising toolkits for local partners.
Read MoreA new report, Preempting Progress, examines how state interference in local policymaking prevents people of color, women, and low-income workers from making ends meet in the South.
Read MoreThis document provides a summary of local authority and preemption in West Virginia. It can inform advocates’ efforts to adopt new policies at the city or county level.
Read MoreThis document provides a summary of local authority and preemption in Virginia. It can inform advocates’ efforts to adopt new policies at the city or county level.
Read MoreThis document provides a summary of local authority and preemption in Texas. It can inform advocates’ efforts to adopt new policies at the city or county level.
Read MoreThis document provides a summary of local authority and preemption in Tennessee. It can inform advocates’ efforts to adopt new policies at the city or county level.
Read MoreThis document provides a summary of local authority and preemption in Pennsylvania. It can inform advocates’ efforts to adopt new policies at the city or county level.
Read MoreThis document provides a summary of local authority and preemption in North Carolina. It can inform advocates’ efforts to adopt new policies at the city or county level.
Read MoreThis document provides a summary of local authority and preemption in Arizona. It can inform advocates’ efforts to adopt new policies at the city or county level.
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