REALTORS® in Providence, Rhode Island led a successful campaign against a threatened rent control ordinance that would have shifted a multi-million-dollar tax burden to local homeowners and ultimately suppressed the solution to the region’s severe housing shortage: the production of additional housing. An Issues Mobilization Grant from the REALTOR® Party…...
Bridge Association of REALTORS® Fends Off Dubious Property Tax Increase in Oakland
When Oakland’s already-high property taxes were threatened with an increase that was problematic for a number of reasons, the local Bridge Association of REALTORS® led a broad coalition in a strategic opposition campaign. Successive Issues Mobilization Grants from the REALTOR® Party helped them reach the voters they needed to defeat…...
Greater Nashville REALTORS® Boost Passage of Pro-Transit Referendum
How bad was Nashville traffic? In 2023, Forbes magazine gave the Tennessee capital the dubious distinction of having ‘the hardest commute in the United States.’ Greater Nashville REALTORS® had, in fact, been hard at work with a coalition seeking major systemic improvements to everything from mass transit to sidewalks, and…...
Washington REALTORS® Campaigns to Defeat Transfer Tax Increase
When multiple bills threatened an increased transfer tax on any real estate sale over $3M that encompassed a commercial development, Washington REALTORS® anticipated the derailment of desperately needed transactions throughout the state. An Issues Mobilization Grant from the REALTOR® Party helped them voice a strong argument against the problematic legislation....
Illinois REALTORS® and the Chicago Association of REALTORS® Conduct Campaign to Defeat Transfer Tax Referendum
With help from an Issues Mobilization Grant from the REALTOR® Party, Illinois REALTORS® and the Chicago Association of REALTORS® fought a misguided referendum seeking to use an increase in real estate transfer taxes to fight homelessness. Understanding that the proposal would be detrimental to the local economy, the REALTORS® launched…...
Austin REALTORS® Leverages Multiple REALTOR® Party Grants in Support of Missing Middle Housing
With strong support from Austin REALTORS®, in 2023, the City of Austin approved the Home Options for Middle-income Empowerment (HOME) Resolution, initiating code amendments to reduce the minimum lot size to 2,500 square feet or less and allow for up to three residential dwelling units per lot. Backed by a…...
Arizona REALTORS® Rally to Repeal Regressive Rental Tax
Arizona rental households had been paying an average of $51/month in transaction privilege taxes, a burden that negatively affected the state’s property managers, as well as its renters. With housing affordability an increasing concern, Arizona REALTORS® redoubled their efforts to repeal the tax, and with support from an Issues Mobilization…...
Ohio REALTORS® Leverage Issues Mobilization Grant to Preempt Threat of Rent Control
When rent control was put on the ballot in Columbus, Ohio, the state REALTOR® association stepped in to tackle the issue before it became a home-rule free-for-all among local jurisdictions. They used an Issues Mobilization Grant to have an expert draft the legislation, and spared the entire state from a…...
Lakeway Area Association of REALTORS® Helps Tennessee’s Jefferson County Resist Moratorium on New Development
An Issues Mobilization Grant helped the local REALTORS® rally a Tennessee community in opposition to a proposed moratorium on new developments that would have increased the price of housing and hurt the construction and trade industries. Advocacy Everywhere got the message through to the County Commission....