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    Database of Community Benefits Frameworks Across the US

    This database includes information pertaining to different types of publicly available community benefits frameworks, including community benefits agreements (CBAs), host community agreements (HCAs), project workforce agreements (PWAs) and community benefit plans (CBPs), amongst others. They can be an important tool to ensure that tangible benefits from development projects are felt locally, enable communities to create or fund programs that matter to them, and help developers develop local relationships and earn community acceptance of a project. This database, therefore, aims to provide information that would be useful to community organizers, policymakers, lawyers, researchers, developers, and other individuals interested in better understanding how agreements between developers and local communities are structured to provide benefits to a local community as part of the development of a specific project.

    Compiled by the World Resources Institute and Data for Progress, this database will regularly be updated as more community benefit frameworks are reviewed and analyzed. If you have access to community benefit frameworks not reflected in this database, please reach out to us here.

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    Atlanta Beltline
    Framework Type: City Ordinance
    Sector: Redevelopment/Construction
    Project Summary: The City of Atlanta, Georgia seeks to establish a "Beltline Redevelopment Area" in which they will facilitate economic and infrastructure development in coordination with the Atlanta Development Authority (ADA).
    Parties to framework: City Council of Atlanta; Atlanta Development Authority (ADA)
    State: Georgia
    Year Signed: 2005
    Benefits included:
    • Employment and Workforce training
    • Local infrastructure and housing
    Benefits - Employment and workforce training:
    – Create Economic Incentives Fund to ensure private development in areas with histories of unemployment, economic depression, poverty, and little economic growth/investment (p. 5)
    – Projects receiving funding from tax allocation bond must reflect principles of prevailing wages for workers (p. 7)
    Benefits - Local infrastructure and housing:
    – May direct tax allocation bonds to public and private improvements to streets, bridges, utilities, storm and sanitary sewers, capital improvements related to transit (p. 5)
    – 15% of the proceeds of the tax allocation bonds must be used for the BeltLine Affordable Housing Trust Fund to develop at least 5,600 units of affordable housing within the BeltLine Redevelopment Area (p. 5)
    – Goal to emphasize connectivity among new developments, existing neighborhoods, and activity centers through bike and pedestrian trails and sidewalks (p. 6)
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