This year's allocation of New Markets Tax Credits is now open for applications, and CDFA is here to help guide you through the process before the June 21st deadline. Tune into this webinar to hear a panel of expert speakers discuss the tips and tricks that they have learned through many years of working with this program.

This analysis from The Brookings Institution provides a quick snapshot of historical federal infrastructure spending with many caveats, and it illustrates the magnitude involved in any potential plan moving forward.

Tax incentives are one of the primary tools that states use to try to create jobs, attract new businesses, and strengthen their economies. Incentives are also major budget commitments, collectively costing states billions of dollars a year. Given this importance, policymakers across the country increasingly are demanding high-quality information on the results of tax incentives.

The Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act, "WIFIA," is a funding mechanism that was enacted to address the US water infrastructure gap. WIFIA aims to encourage private investment in public water infrastructure projects, and the EPA announced it had received 43 letters of interest in its first round of solicitations. In this episode of Chadbourne Currents pocast, Chadbourne associate Chadron Edwards speak with Jake Falk, Counsel in their Washington, DC office, to discuss the WIFIA program.

Trying to size up the state of small business lending can prompt the question: Is the glass half-full or half-empty? Banks and government data point to a recovery in small business loans since the recession, with loan figures nearly back to their 2008 levels.

Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Wednesday unveiled a bill that would provide more than $85 billion for drinking water, electric grid, renewable energy, brownfields, health care and broadband infrastructure.

Preserving the tax exemption for bonds, treating PABs more like governmental bonds without restrictions for publicly accessible projects, and reviving direct-pay bonds are some of the infrastructure funding recommendations that SIFMA has made to administration officials and members of Congress.

During this installment of the CDFA // BNY Mellon Development Finance Webcast Series, our experts will discuss financing structures that communities are deploying to fund infrastructure improvements.

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