Making Development Work for Local Residents: Local Hire Programs and Implementation Strategies That Serve Low-Income Communities

The Partnership’s newest report, Making Development Work for Local Residents: Local Hire Programs and Implementation Strategies That Serve Low-Income Communities, documents our movement’s success in winning hundreds of new job opportunities for local residents.

Model programs profiled in the report include an East Palo Alto ordinance, the Los Angeles airport modernization CBA, and the project labor agreement for the Port of Oakland modernization, among others. Making Development Work provides evidence for what we all know: that local hire programs can provide substantial numbers of new job opportunities for low-income local residents.

These programs have been tremendously successful in opening access to permanent jobs; despite significant progress in creating new access to construction careers, barriers remain.

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