The National League of Cities (NLC) introduced Leading Together: 2020 Cities Agenda at the annual City Summit conference in November. NLC’s Leading Together agenda targets the 2020 presidential election by outlining nonpartisan issues that are top priorities for cities and towns around the country.
The Leading Together agenda highlights four areas:
- Building sustainable infrastructure
- Creating a skilled workforce
- Ending housing instability and homelessness
- Reducing gun violence
NLC’s federal advocacy agenda includes similar topics as well as other issues critical to cities:
- Infrastructure
- Housing
- Opioids
- Small cell deployment
- Census
- Tax policy
- Community resilience