Earlier this year, Texas provided Toyota with $40M when the company moved its headquarters from California. Toyota official said the incentive had little effect on their decision. The LA Times has brought up a good question on the effectiveness of programs targeting corporations.

Texas lawmakers are looking for ways to pay for improvements to its highways, as the state's 20 cent gas tax, which hasn't been raised since 1991, cannot keep up with the cost and Texas cannot keep borrowing without a way to pay off the debt.

Roll Call reports there was bipartisan House agreement that P3s should be an important part of paying for new transportation infrastructure. The question, now, is how large a percentage of infrastructure funding will come from P3s.

A lawsuit was filed alleging that the U.S. Treasury and OCC racially discriminating in the City of Dallas in their administration of the Low Income Housing Tax Credit program.

Michael Novogradac writes on the advantages tax credits over capital grants and their proven track records promoting capital investment in affordable housing, community development, historic preservation and renewable energy.

November 18-21, 2014 - Scottsdale, AZ
Hosted by the generous support of the Scottsdale IDA, this year's National Summit will be an amazing, can't-miss event with an in-depth look at development finance in the United States. Designed to educate both novices and seasoned development finance professionals alike, the 2014 National Development Finance Summit will touch on over 25 different financing concepts, tools, programs, strategies, and solutions to the challenges facing our country.

CDFA has begun a targeted letter-writing campaign. We ask that industry stakeholders send letters to House members to support CDFA's Modernizing American Manufacturing Bonds Act and the suggested reforms to modernize and revolutionize Qualified Small Issue Manufacturing Bonds. To make this process easier, we have created sample letters for your use.

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This research found that the county unemployment rate in the year of TIF adoption and neighboring TIF-adopters (i.e. competitive adoption) had a positive effect on TIF size. Path dependency had a negative effect on the size of TIF districts established by Texas municipalities. The number of overlapping jurisdictions participating was not statistically significant.

The U.S. Small Business Administartion's list of Participating Microloan Intermediary Lenders provides contact information for each lender.

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