The Community Ownership Policy Guide
Winning and implementing community ownership policy requires strategy, organizing, and sustained effort. This series translates lessons from community ownership campaigns across the country into practical resources for practitioners, advocates, and policymakers working to create, pass, implement, and strengthen supportive policies.
Building power
Community ownership advocates rarely win alone. This brief examines how advocates build strategic coalitions with diverse allies and what it takes to sustain those partnerships when goals and priorities don't perfectly align.
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Selecting a policy strategy
Advocates are pursuing a wide range of policies to address community ownership -- from land access to legal recognition to financing. This field guide and companion database map the policy strategies advocates are winning at the state and local level.
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Coming soon
Building Campaign Infrastructure for Community Ownership
What does it take to run a sustained policy campaign? A forthcoming brief on the funding, staffing, legal, and organizational building blocks that make community ownership advocacy possible.
Sequencing campaigns
This brief examines how to think strategically about which campaigns to pursue, when to hold firm on a policy design, and how early wins can open doors for something more ambitious.
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Making it stick
Passing a policy is only half the battle. This brief documents what advocates do after a win -- monitoring implementation, fighting rollback, and building the relationships that turn a legislative victory into lasting community benefit.
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This body of work is part of the Community Ownership Learning and Action Lab (COLA Lab).