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A rendering of what Port Covington would look like once the decades-long project is completed.

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Which Community Benefits Agreements Really Delivered?

[…] 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 […]

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Making Community Benefits Agreements Count

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.

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Organizing Renaissance

[…] 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 […]

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Power in Numbers

[…] 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 […]

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Expanding Community Benefits Agreements to Events

[…] 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 […]

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In Detroit, the Fight for Community Benefits Begins Anew

[…] 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 […]

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Shelter Shorts

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 […]

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New Movements for a New Era

[…] 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 […]