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Junho 2019, inglês

Junho 2019, inglês

  Suburban Concord, California, which struggles with empty office space, is determining how to redevelop a 5,000-acre naval base next to a Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) station. A few train stops away, San Francisco faces a growing housing deficit after adding 165,000 new jobs from 2010 to 2015.   Though each of the Bay […]

Junho 2019, inglês

A movement has gained momentum under the banner of YIMBY: Yes in My Backyard, but it faces opposition from longtime homeowners. Is there a path forward to create new housing in high-cost cities?

Maio 2019, inglês

  F or an afternoon, in 2015, residents temporarily transformed an aging business district in Akron, Ohio’s North Hill neighborhood. Local business owners and leaders worked with the Better Block Foundation to demonstrate what more was possible for the intersection of North Main Street and Cuyahoga Falls Avenue. Pop-up businesses, parklets, bike lanes, and art […]

Maio 2019, inglês

Tax increment financing is one of the most widely used—and least understood—public finance mechanisms in the U.S. today. David Merriman, one of the foremost experts on TIF, talks about what communities and states can do to avoid the pitfalls.