Every issue of the High Road Policy memo series, plus the reports, fact sheets and testimony from the project's first six years. Cornell's eCommons repository remains the archive of record.
2024
Likely renters voted at rates 31 points below likely homeowners in 2022. Where candidates backed Good Cause eviction, the gap was closer to 18 points.
There was no 2023 volume. That year the team published standalone reports and tools on living wages, child care and evictions, listed below and on the data tools page.
2022
A special triple issue on Erie County's childcare system. It finds the system is not broken but working as a market is designed to, and calls for a New York Care Act.
2021
Non-citizen residents once voted in local elections across the United States. This issue makes the historical, legal and data case for restoring that right in Buffalo.
A $15 federal minimum wage that also ended the tipped subminimum would reduce housing cost burden in Buffalo, most of all for households headed by people of color.
Nos. 2 and 3 of Volume 2, on the federal Child Tax Credit and on vacant property, were announced in 2021 but not published.
2020
Buffalo, or any home-rule city, could replace its charter with one grounded in community and human rights, giving residents real power over development.
A three-part framework for state action: an Office of Racial Equity and Social Justice, a participatory statewide vision and plan, and equity impact analysis.
The project's founding statement: what the high road is, what counts as high road policy, and a theory of change for getting there.
Researchers left and right agree that targeted business subsidies don't pay off. This issue identifies two New York bills that could phase them out.
The first issue proposes two tools for a stronger local democracy: worker cooperatives and participatory budgeting, both funded by Buffalo before.
A four-part Buffalo Co-Lab series on 1930s redlining in Buffalo, the distress it left behind, and how communities are working to undo it.
Buffalo's neighborhoods that were redlined in the 1930s are still the most disadvantaged parts of the city today, nearly a century later.
Systems thinking for community change, with a case study of PUSH Buffalo's work on the West Side.
Community wealth building, and a Buffalo community development program that expanded resident voice.
What the series adds up to, and where to go from here.
Women in Erie County earn $2.74 an hour less than men after adjusting for other factors, about $5,700 a year. The report pairs Census data with focus groups and six interactive charts.
A 2023 living wage study for Tompkins County.
Phase two of the Co-Lab's study with the Live Well Erie Task Force. Of 499 licensed providers surveyed, 234 responded; about 80% of child care workers earn less than a living wage.
The region's housing supply and the policy gaps that keep it from meeting need.
Renting, rent burden and tenant exploitation in Erie County, with a five-part program of 12 proposals.
Unions, employee ownership and mission-led firms in Buffalo-Niagara, with 13 federal, state and local recommendations.
State government employment in mental health care from 1990 to 2021.
Prevailing wages on New York City projects.
A collaborative brief on evictions and public safety, with an online appendix relating ZIP code eviction rates to social ties and voter turnout.
Hosted by Partnership for the Public Good.
Nearly half of New Yorkers rent, but renters vote at far lower rates. Candidates who back tenant protections could change that. Companion to Vol. 4, No. 1.
About 250,000 households have no high-speed internet and 810,000 rely on a cellular plan alone. Income is the strongest predictor of who is left out.
The tax incentives requested for a 181,500 square foot warehouse before the Hamburg Industrial Development Agency.
The companion fact sheet, hosted by PEF.
What a living wage measures, and the methods behind the main calculators.
The purpose of a minimum wage and New York's efforts to reform it.
