New Data from the National League of Cities Reveals Cities Concerned About Funding, Developing and Providing Essential Infrastructure Services for their Residents As the Congress and the Administration debate the details of a new comprehensive infrastructure package, new survey data…
Annual “State of the Cities” Report Finds Mayors Expanding Leadership Roles to Fight Attacks on Local Control, Address Top Issues for Cities WASHINGTON — May 24, 2017 — A comprehensive…
In 2015, Grand Rapids was home to about 40,000 African-Americans, who made up between 20 percent and 21 percent of the population. That same year, Forbes magazine listed Grand Rapids,…
In advance of our annual State of the Cities report, which will be released later this year, this blog series captures speeches given by mayors in 2018 and shares their…
https://www.nlc.org/article/2018/08/17/housing-and-cities-a-deeper-look-at-the-numbers/
Over the last few years, “The Rent is Too Damn High” has grown from a fringe political party in New York to a constant complaint from millennials, seniors, middle-income wage…
This week, more than 40 executive directors and local leaders from 19 state municipal leagues across the country traveled to Washington, D.C., for NLC’s third annual state municipal league fly-in.…
These cities show how the Public Finance Authority can help your municipality finance its own economic development projects. Sixty-six percent of mayoral state of the city speeches this year included…
The National League of Cities (NLC) is the voice of the nation’s more than 19,000 cities, towns, and villages to the President, the President’s Administration, and Congress. For a century,…
In 2020, communities struggled to maintain services and essential workers during the coronavirus pandemic. At the same time, they faced a record number of climate-related disasters, such as wildfires, extreme heat, and hurricanes, which…
https://www.nlc.org/article/2018/07/06/cities-go-digital/
“Today, that critical connection to the wider world isn’t just physical. It’s digital.” – Mayor Jim Gray of Lexington, Kentucky, in his 2018 State of the City speech. In this…