Determining whether local governments have authority to implement local tenant protections, particularly in the face of potential state preemption, remains a challenge.
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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.
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The Local Solutions Support Center has compiled short memos summarizing the nature and scope of local authority in each state.
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In 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.
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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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These new documents provide a summary of local authority and preemption in several key states that can inform advocates’ efforts to adopt new policies at the city or county level. State preemption laws limit or prohibit local policymaking in different areas.
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In the wake of recent demonstrations against racist police and vigilante violence against Black communities, we will likely see increased legislative attacks on protestors.
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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 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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Local minimum-wage laws can help ensure that workers can afford housing, food, and other basic necessities in locations where the cost of living is higher than in other parts of the country or state.
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This memorandum provides an overview of some substantive and procedural constraints on the latitude of state legislatures to limit local authority and autonomy.
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