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Landing Capital
The Capital Absorption Framework for Community Investment
April 2017, English
Since 2015, representatives from various public agencies, foundations, and nonprofit groups in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, and Denver have been jointly participating in “capital absorption” workshops, to forge solutions to local affordable housing shortages through strategies that attract land, capital, and other resources. They represent not just housing, but transit, planning, and […]
April 2017, English
Since 2015, representatives from various public agencies, foundations, and nonprofit groups in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, and Denver have been jointly participating in “capital absorption” workshops, to forge solutions to local affordable housing shortages through strategies that attract land, capital, and other resources. They represent not just housing, but transit, planning, and […]
No Little Plans
The Evolution of the Comprehensive Plan
April 2017, English
Comprehensive plans can inspire their creators to tap their highest and best professional skills, training, and vision—or cause them to question their choice of profession. They often take a couple years to produce and can require extensive community outreach, sometimes with rancorous results—if, for example, the community has strong opposing opinions about a vision for […]
April 2017, English
Comprehensive plans can inspire their creators to tap their highest and best professional skills, training, and vision—or cause them to question their choice of profession. They often take a couple years to produce and can require extensive community outreach, sometimes with rancorous results—if, for example, the community has strong opposing opinions about a vision for […]
Muni Finance
Making Tax Incentives Work: Lessons from Boston, Massachusetts
April 2017, English
The use of tax incentives to encourage economic growth has increased over the last several decades. Given this escalation, it is important for policy makers to employ techniques that promote growth while avoiding practices that needlessly erode the tax base. Tax incentive policies must balance the desire to stimulate job growth and economic activity with […]
April 2017, English
The use of tax incentives to encourage economic growth has increased over the last several decades. Given this escalation, it is important for policy makers to employ techniques that promote growth while avoiding practices that needlessly erode the tax base. Tax incentive policies must balance the desire to stimulate job growth and economic activity with […]
Land Lines, April 2017
April 2017, English
This issue looks at value capture; business tax incentives; what app data can do for city planners; the latest comprehensive plans in Denver, Seattle, and Boston; and the Capital Absorption Framework for community investment.
April 2017, English
This issue looks at value capture; business tax incentives; what app data can do for city planners; the latest comprehensive plans in Denver, Seattle, and Boston; and the Capital Absorption Framework for community investment.
A Framework for a Financial Sustainability Index
April 2017, English
April 2017, English
State Government and Urban Revitalization
How States Can Foster Stronger, More Inclusive Cities
April 2017, English
April 2017, English
April 2017, Spanish
Mensaje del presidente
Cómo transplantar las innovaciones en materia urban
March 2017, Spanish
Cuando organizamos reuniones en América Latina, a veces contratamos intérpretes simultáneos para que aquellos de nosotros que poseemos un limitado conocimiento del idioma español podamos seguir la conversación. Estos intérpretes son personas realmente dotadas, capaces de procesar palabras, contextos, significados y matices en nanosegundos. Ocasionalmente, ocurren divertidos tropiezos con los términos. Una palabra que se […]
March 2017, Spanish
Cuando organizamos reuniones en América Latina, a veces contratamos intérpretes simultáneos para que aquellos de nosotros que poseemos un limitado conocimiento del idioma español podamos seguir la conversación. Estos intérpretes son personas realmente dotadas, capaces de procesar palabras, contextos, significados y matices en nanosegundos. Ocasionalmente, ocurren divertidos tropiezos con los términos. Una palabra que se […]
