APA helps you advocate for your community.
View APA's policy guides outlining official association positions.
Each year APA adopts a slate of legislative priorities and a platform for policies to advance planning.
Discover how APA advances the planning agenda by filing amicus curiae (friend of the court) briefs in selected cases of national importance. Read the text of APA's briefs and court decisions in the cases.
Decisions made on Capitol Hill affect your plans for housing, infrastructure, open space preservation, transportation, and more.
Learn about APA fellowships for graduate students in planning to spend six months as a Congressional Fellow working on Capitol Hill.
Access action alerts and send e-mail to your federal and state representatives. Get complete information on each member of Congress, track votes, and follow key issues.
Track the legislative, legal and electoral developments surrounding regulatory takings and eminent domain.
Participate in a review of the nation's infrastructure policies that will lead to a series of recommendations and reports. Get involved.
Find tools, guides and other resources for effective grassroots advocacy. Find out how to get involved!
Read APA's column from Executive Director Paul Farmer examining the federal domestic agenda and issues of importance to planning.
Get the latest updates on legislative activity with APA's e-newsletter on policy issues of interest to planners and communities.
This toolkit for APA members covers messages, public participation, media relations, and e-communications.
APA's Growing Smart Legislative Guidebook: Model Statutes for Planning and the Management of Change is a guidebook outlining options for model legislation.
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