Articles on Community Benefits Agreements
The Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Economic Development Law recently published a special issue focused on community benefits agreements. CBLC attorneys Julian Gross and Ben Beach contributed articles.
- “CBAs: Definitions, Values, and Legal Enforceability,” by Julian Gross
- “Strategies and Lessons from the Los Angeles Community Benefits Experience,” by Benjamin S. Beach
Both articles reprinted from Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Economic Development Law, Volume 17, Issues 1-2, a publication of the Forum on Affordable Housing & Community Development of the American Bar Association.
CBLC provides legal assistance to community-based organizations, labor unions, and other advocates pushing for economic justice in land use and economic development decisions.
The goal of the CBLC is to develop legal tools and strategies that:
- facilitate community understanding of and involvement in major land use decisions, and
- deliver concrete community benefits, such as high-quality local jobs.
Our vision is to build a national network of attorneys with expertise in the community benefits field, giving individual attorneys the ability to share strategies, advise each other, work collaboratively, and build on each others’ victories in communities across the country. To this end, the CBLC will assist local attorneys doing community benefits work, maintain a list-serv and a directory of like-minded lawyers, and help lawyers work together on the many legal aspects of community benefits campaigns.