Don’t be fooled: Winnipeg’s newly proposed “rapid transit” project is actually a road-widening project in disguise. And it aims to borrow money so the City can destroy millions of dollars of its own tax base.
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These curves are costing Americans a lot, both financially and physically.
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Streets can be about many things, but unless they are building wealth for the community, they won’t survive. Period.
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We expect city budgets and financial reports to inform citizens and community leaders alike, but in reality, local government accounting is unnecessarily complicated, confusing, and illogical.
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In the realm of urban planning, there’s plenty of discourse out there about housing affordability—but what about household wealth building?
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Is this an amazing idea that could have transformative benefits for people…or a horrible idea ripe for corruption and mismanagement?
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This case shows why local governments need to do a better job accounting for maintenance costs.
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Recently, the North Carolina Ad Hoc Appraisals Committee was challenged to face their own biases and fix their broken property tax assessment system. Here’s what happened.
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What is the real reason behind our striking property tax disparities?
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Two of our favorite storytellers—Urban3 and Not Just Bikes—come together in this awesome video.
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Citizens can’t make informed decisions if they don’t know the financial condition of their government. This nonpartisan nonprofit is making those numbers both available and transparent.
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Any attempt to design cities that are for people and not cars is all for naught if there are no means to finance it.
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Unless we start making better accounting choices today, we’ll be facing service cuts and tax increases every year going forward. …That is, until the day we can’t anymore.
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For most small-scale developers, capital is a significant barrier to doing small infill projects. But that isn't because the money isn't there to be had.
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Making city budgets accessible to the average citizen is crucial for building stronger places. Here’s 4 examples of cities that made their budgets not only accessible, but even fun!
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A relatively new funding mechanism helps small businesses build support in the community, even without all the resources of a larger startup.
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There are major flaws in the accounting standards that shape municipal finance in American cities. But there’s an opportunity too: a chance to comment on—and perhaps change—those standards going forward.
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The changes that need to be made to fix our cities will never come about in a culture whose solution for everything is “Just print the money.”
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No matter the domain or field—city government, planning and engineering, and even our own families and communities—we all leave a legacy. The question is: will it be the legacy we intended to leave?
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There’s a 30% chance your house will be worth less in five years. Homeownership is not the surefire investment vehicle it often gets advertised as.
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