Our Localism: Part I--The Structure of Local Government Law

Briffault, Richard

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“…5. Home rule is the transfer of authority from the state that allows a municipality to select officers, determine its organizational structure, and regulate local matters of politics, culture, and economics (Barron 2003;Briffault 1990 12. The California's Department of Housing and Community Development (CAHCD) provides annual compliance reports to the legislature (n.d.) 13.…”

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State Mandates, Housing Elements, and Low-income Housing Production

Ramsey-Musolf

2017

Journal of Planning Literature

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In order to create low-income housing opportunities and mitigate exclusionary zoning, in 1968 Congress mandated that municipalities receiving comprehensive planning funds must create a housing element. In tandem, many states mandated that municipal housing elements must accommodate low-income housing needs. After examining empirical research for California, Florida, Illinois, and Minnesota, this review found aspirational success because those states rewarded the municipal planning process. In order to increase low-income housing, this review argues for state housing policy reform. Under US Department of Housing and Urban Development's revised fair housing rule, which requires an assessment of local data, states can no longer ignore the exclusionary behavior of municipalities.

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State Mandates, Housing Elements, and Low-income Housing Production

Ramsey-Musolf

2017

Journal of Planning Literature

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“…In part, the suit claimed that voters outside of the new cities, the majority of whom were minorities, were illegally denied the right to vote in incorporation referendums. Although any metropolitan boundary change may produce externality effects, U.S. courts and legislatures have typically defined local interest so that only the residents of areas seeking incorporation are entitled to vote on it, as was the case for the new Atlanta‐area cities (Briffault, , pp. 73–74, , p. 794; Frug, , p. 61; Lowery v. Deal , ).…”

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Metropolitan Secession and the Space of Color-Blind Racism in Atlanta

Connor

2015

Journal of Urban Affairs

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The Reverend Joseph Lowery and the Georgia Legislative Black Caucus sponsored a 2011 voting rights suit, Lowery v. Deal, that demanded the disincorporation of several majoritywhite cities in Georgia's Fulton and DeKalb Counties and preemption against attempts by affluent and majority-white north Fulton to secede from the rest of the county. Secession would have severe consequences for racial equity in the metropolitan area. Lowery's 2011 dismissal by the District Court reflects ascendant color-blind racial ideology that defends white privilege in metropolitan space by attributing it to culturally and legally legitimate race-neutral processes. Historical analysis challenges this color-blind interpretation, identifying the nominally class-based interests of north Fulton residents with systemic racial discrimination and the politics of secession with historic patterns of spatial politics that have sought not only to exclude but also to manipulate political space to limit the ability of black voters and officials to make decisions affecting whites and their property.

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“…Localism also has strong ties to the idea of the community as a geographic entity and as the incubator for local values, culture, and tradition (Napoli, ). Localism is therefore a “value … deeply embedded in the American legal and political culture” dating back to Jefferson's little republics (Briffault, , p. 1; Briffault, ). The U.S. census—the first systematic census among modern nation states—for example, is fundamentally a local exercise for national benefit as everything from the appropriation of seats in the House of Representatives, to taxation is based on the census of local populations (Anderson, ).…”

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Critical Regionalism and the Policies of Place: Revisiting Localism for the Digital Age

Ali

2015

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Local broadcasting is at a crossroads in Western media systems. While regulators work to address emergent challenges, an enduring tension within the discourse of local media regulation remains how to define “the local.” Stemming from the inability to meet this challenge, an artificial duality has emerged between communities of place and communities of interest within regulatory discussions. The larger epistemological question, therefore, remains undertheorized: How can we think through these issues in a productive fashion, rather than reducing them to an artificial dichotomy of spatial versus social? Through the use of illustrative instances from the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada, I argue that the neo‐Marxian theory of critical regionalism is a useful framework to approach this question.

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Our Localism: Part I--The Structure of Local Government Law

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State Mandates, Housing Elements, and Low-income Housing Production

State Mandates, Housing Elements, and Low-income Housing Production

Metropolitan Secession and the Space of Color-Blind Racism in Atlanta

Critical Regionalism and the Policies of Place: Revisiting Localism for the Digital Age

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