Is “value capture” a wonderful untapped opportunity to fulfil all our infrastructure dreams? Or is it just a new way to sting the taxpayer? Our new report casts a cold, hard gaze over value capture, ...
Value capture, in which the public sector recovers some of the value created by government actions like the construction of a transit line or a rezoning, has recently joined congestion pricing among ...
“If the federal government wants to do stupid, they can do stupid,” declared Gov. Cuomo last month, in a rebuff of the White House that was reminiscent of the Trump years. At issue was the Gateway ...
I first became acquainted with the idea of value capture when I wrote about energy efficiency and land use, specifically Tax Increment Financing. Homelessness, in my view, is generally not just an ...
A proposal in the state executive budget would raise revenue for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority by creating transportation improvement districts that would capture a share – up to 50 ...
SÃO PAULO, Brazil — José Uilton has seen a lot of things change along Luís Carlos Berrini Avenue since he took over a bar here 17 years ago. Most of the squatter settlements, known in Brazil as ...
With the federal government aiming to kick-start investment in urban infrastructure, pledging A$50 million of public money in the 2016 budget to look at alternative financing mechanisms, attention is ...
Anyone who's lived in an area without mass transit would be hard-pressed to argue that the trains and buses of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority are not the economic engine of this region. But ...