Description: Economic Development/Irish Diaspora
My latest research just published online at the Journal of Urban Affairs
ABSTRACT: Community empowerment movements challenge local government administrators and planners to emphasize people instead of development profits in the planning process. Community Benefits Agreements (CBAs) are popular tools to advance this objective. Executed by and between local governments, communities, and project developers, CBAs detail how economic benefits from new development are shared with residents. One question understudied in the literature is how does a community know if it received an equi
Bill Farley (2023) Disrupting the knowledge and power imbalance in Community Benefits Agreement negotiations: Lessons from the Aggie Square development in Sacramento, California, Journal of Urban Affairs, DOI: 10.1080/07352166.2022.2155527