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[…] support the project, resulting in what’s widely considered the nation’s first Community Benefits Agreement ( CBA). Two decades later, CBAs have spread across the country, becoming a widely used tool […]

CBAs can be extremely difficult to implement and enforce, which is why a detailed agreement in the early stages of the community-developer relationship is so important.

[…] Massachusetts CDCs, however, have won significant improvements through organizing. Coalition for a Better Acre ( CBA) was born in 1982 out of a fight to save the low-income, mostly Puerto […]

[…] responsible for evaluating whether groups adhere to promises made in a community benefits agreement ( CBA)? Is there any recourse for those who don’t get what they were promised? And […]

[…] Airport. A centerpiece of the press conference was a $500 million community benefits agreement ( CBA) that would dramatically improve quality of life for low-income communities near LAX. Aside from […]

[…] circumstances the community group faces today. That’s the issue of citywide Community Benefits Agreement ( CBA) campaigns, which the group has been developing in coalition with other neighborhood groups over […]

[…] breakup. NCRC accused KeyBank of discriminatory lending, directly violating an existing community benefits agreement ( CBA) signed in 2016 that committed KeyBank to investing $16.5 billion over five years to […]

[…] I was intrigued to read in the conference program that the event had negotiated a CBA with local leaders. After the conference, I spoke with Race Forward’s Leslie Grant-Spann to […]

[…] a local advisory council to address community concerns. As with traditional Community Benefits Agreements ( CBA), the developer’s obligations could range from local hiring requirements to affordable housing minimums to […]

[…] these renters build credit histories. For example, from 2012 to 2015, Credit Builders Alliance ( CBA) implemented its Power of Rent Reporting pilot, funded by the Citi Foundation. This pilot […]

Redefining Community Benefits When does a community benefits agreement ( CBA) not benefit its community? When it is negotiated between elected officials and developers, says Sustainable South Bronx, a nonprofit […]

[…] that led to a living wage victory and, later, the first community benefits agreement ( CBA) in the country. The notion underlying CBAs is that public money supporting private enterprise […]