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Financial Sustainability Index
A Self-Assessment Tool for Financial Sustainability
May 2017, English
May 2017, English
Minnesota’s Road to a Legacy Amendment
How We Created and Passed a Constitutional Amendment with Vision, Partnerships, Strategy, Promotion, and Perseverance
May 2017, English
May 2017, English
Evaluation of Real Property Tax Abatements in Franklin County, Ohio
May 2017, English
May 2017, English
Relocalizaciones Urbanas y Riesgos Ambientales
Un análisis de los casos de Magaldi y Villa 26 en la cuenca Matanza Riachuelo (Argentina)
May 2017, Spanish
May 2017, Spanish
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 […]
A Framework for a Financial Sustainability Index
April 2017, English
April 2017, English
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 […]
