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📬 LP Network Download | Building power through collaboration | September 2026

Here’s a look at some of what’s happening across the Local Progress network this month.
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LP School Board Download 📓| Back to School | September 2026

Welcome back to the LP School Board Download – our quarterly newsletter about all things school board! With the start of the school year, we know you’re holding the joy of having students back in your schools.

Brave of Us Roundup: Immigrant Justice at the Local Level

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No Buildout For Billionaires

LP School Board Download 📓| Collaborative Governance across the country| June 2026

Welcome back to the LP School Board Download – our quarterly newsletter about all things school board!

Lessons from the Front Lines: LP Members Chart New Path Forward in the Face of Growing Authoritarianism

How Local Electeds Can Tax the Ultrawealthy to Fund Communities

Training Our Next Cohort of Comms Leaders

Faith Winter

Remembering Senator Faith Winter’s Leadership

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Local Progress Texas Members and Partners Fight for their Communities at the State Capitol

Our Texas members, who represent hundreds and even hundreds of thousands of constituents, understand it is of the utmost importance that they exercise their voice at the Texas Capitol.
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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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How Local Leaders Can Show Up for LGBTQ+ Communities Under the Trump Administration

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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:

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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.
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

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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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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Social Housing Emerging in Cities Needs Local Govt Support

Local Progress founding board chair Nick Licata makes the case for local governments to support social housing.

press Releases

Brave of Us Roundup: Immigrant Justice at the Local Level

A yellow background with the text "No Buildout for Billionaires"

No Buildout For Billionaires

Lessons from the Front Lines: LP Members Chart New Path Forward in the Face of Growing Authoritarianism

How Local Electeds Can Tax the Ultrawealthy to Fund Communities

Training Our Next Cohort of Comms Leaders