Periodically throughout the pandemic the Local Solutions Support Center published a weekly news digest covering the conflicts between state and local governments over public health protections.
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This resource takes a look at how states and cities responded to the pandemic.
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As 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.
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This fact sheet provides an overview of state and local government authority to regulate and potentially require vaccination.
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This memo aims only to engage in a preliminary way with the question of what a state’s grant of emergency authority to local governments means for localities facing the COVID-19 crisis.
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This provides a listing of the lawsuits as of July 2020 that challenge pandemic-related tenant protections.
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This model resolution is geared towards helping local officials and advocates push their legislature and governor to clarify local authority pertaining to housing solutions.
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This message guide will help you explain how existing and new state preemption has left local governments and people vulnerable to the pandemic, worsened inequities, and weakened efforts to protect public health.
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This model resolution is geared towards helping local officials and advocates push their legislature and governor to clarify local authority pertaining to key policies around housing, worker protection, and broadband access.
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As the coronavirus pandemic spreads, local elected officials and advocates alike are asking what they can do for their communities across a range of policies — including to ensure that everyone has broadband Internet access available.
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As the coronavirus pandemic spreads, local elected officials and advocates alike are asking what they can do for their communities across a range of policies—including those that respond to our pressing housing and homelessness needs.
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This memo aims to engage in a preliminary way with the question of what a state’s grant of emergency authority to local governments means for localities facing the COVID-19 crisis.
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As the coronavirus pandemic spreads, local elected officials and advocates are asking what they can do for their communities. This brief guide can help you determine whether your community has the authority it needs to adopt a particular policy.
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