About Us

Who we are. And how we’re working to improve your community.

Partners for Better Communities is a project of the Laborers’ International Union of North America (LIUNA).

LIUNA has more than 500,000 members, most of whom are construction workers. Our members do the hard, dangerous and often dirty work of building our communities. Learn more about LIUNA.

Now, along with every other working family, they are facing a “triple threat” due to the current downturn of the economy. Jobs, homes and retirement savings have been lost.

Like you, members of the Laborers’ International Union:

• Look at beautiful brochures, plans and marketing materials before buying a house in an emerging subdivision. Then, they move in and find that reality of daily life may be rather different.
• See the effects of careless community planning, design and construction in new master-planned communities.
• Watch as developers push local government officials to cut corners, change regulations, and generally help builders maximize their profits at the community’s expense.
• Live in neighborhoods where creating and maintaining a high quality of life requires constant vigilance, analysis and action.
• They experience dust, noise, vibration and erosion as ongoing construction activities impact parents and children on their street.

That’s why LIUNA founded Partners for Better Communities: to work with community residents to identify local problems and opportunities, and solve them.

In communities like yours in Nevada, Arizona, California, Florida and Texas, Partners for Better Communities is active providing public education, reporting construction impacts in local neighborhoods, and seeking to address problems created through misguided land use and development decisions.

At Partners for Better Communities, we’re pushing back against the shoddy results in so many “master planned communities.” We’re working with homeowners, workers, public officials and others to support a broad agenda for community development that’s smarter about our shared resources, like land and water, and more oriented to the health and well-being of regular, working families.

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