Over the course of several years, St. Louis REALTORS® has engaged in transit and community development advocacy that began with a hands-on placemaking project and grew to involve more extensive Smart Growth grants and State and Local Growth Polling. Its sustained commitment was recently recognized by Citizens for Modern Transit…...
Greater Providence Board of REALTORS® Deflects Rent Control Threat with Vigorous Issues Mobilization Campaign
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…...
Greater Lehigh Valley Association of REALTORS® Secures Land Use Initiative Review to Support Concerns over New Rental Ordinance in Bangor, Pennsylvania
GLVR spotted problems with the Borough of Bangor’s recent code update – on both sides of the landlord-tenant divide. Among the most worrying were excessive landlord penalties for disruptive tenant conduct, and the barring of any member of an evicted household from renting in the borough for five years. With…...