Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal Volume 16 Article 8 Number 2 Summer 2019 Summer 2019 Community Economic Development Strategies in the New Millennium: Key Advantages of Community Benefits Agreements in Urban Mega- Projects Andy Carr Follow this and additional works at: https://repository.uchastings.edu/ hastings_race_poverty_law_journal Part of the Law and Race Commons Recommended Citation Andy Carr, Community Economic Development Strategies in the New Millennium: Key Advantages of Community Benefits Agreements in Urban Mega-Projects, 16 Hastings Race & Poverty L.J. 263 (2019). Available at: https://repository.uchastings.edu/hastings_race_poverty_law_journal/vol16/iss2/8 This Note is brought to you for free and open access by the Law Journals at UC Hastings Scholarship Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal by an authorized editor of UC Hastings Scholarship Repository. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. 7 - HRPLJ_16-2_CARR (MACROS).DOCX (DO NOT DELETE) 5/2/2019 3:15 PM Community Economic Development Strategies in the New Millennium: Key Advantages of Community Benefits Agreements in Urban Mega-Projects ANDY CARR I. Introduction Over the past few decades, social, political, and economic transformations have underscored the paradox of steadily increasing globalization amid a renewed isolationist backlash in various Western societies. Populist and nativist political parties and elected leaders have risen in lockstep with wealth and income inequality in those same countries as well as concomitant and rapidly shifting social norms—all have been identified as prominent influences over contemporary life. Within these upheavals, various political, cultural, and economic actors have ascended the ranks of the world’s most powerful institutions, spreading their global reach to billions.