The Project Blog features a succession of posts about the research project as it unfolds. The series captures how we’re tracking how governments are spending their American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds and how ARPA is affecting city governments’ investments in Community Violence Interventions (CVIs). In addition to detailing our research, we hope the blogs are useful to others interested in examining how governments are using their ARPA aid.
Note: Blog entries reflect our thinking at the time they were written. Our approach has shifted as we’ve learned more about CVIs and observed governments’ actual spending patterns. For example, we no longer track community violence intervention and community violence prevention as separate categories. We have noted where our thinking has substantially changed in the relevant posts.
Recent Posts
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Using ARPA Dollars to Support Community Violence Interventions: Where Are We Now?
Over the last four years, the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA)’s State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds (SLFRF) program has led to a prodigious number of investments by governments in novel solutions to longstanding social and economic problems. While many of those experiments will continue for years to come, SLFRF funding will not. December 31,
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How Have State and Local Governments Invested SLFRF Dollars in Community Violence Interventions, as of March 31, 2024?
By Amanda Kass and Phil Rocco This blog post is a follow-up to our June 9, 2023 examination of how governments are using Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds program (SLFRF) dollars to support community violence interventions. As a reminder, governments have until December 31, 2026 to spend their SLFRF dollars (although all the
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State and local governments have less than a year to decide how to spend their remaining COVID relief funds. Here’s how 26 cities are doing.
With the passage of ARPA Congress authorized $350 billion in aid to governments across the country under State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds (SLFRF) program. The creation of SLFRF represented the largest transfer of flexible federal aid to subnational governments in half a century. Yet the clock is winding down on governments’ ability to spend…
How are cities spending ARPA funds to address violent crime 