CDFA has submitted tax policy recommendations to the Senate Finance Committee as the SFC takes its initial steps toward comprehensive tax reform. The submission comes following a request from SFC Chairman Orrin Hatch for advice and suggestions on ways to improve the tax code from tax policy stakeholders.

A STAR Bond is a tax increment financing program which allows city governments in Kansas to issue special revenue bonds that are repaid by all of the revenues received by the city or county from incremental increases in taxes within the designated portion of the city's "sales tax and revenue" (STAR) Bond district. Kansas Legislative Research Department answers other key aspects of a STAR bond.

Gary Brooks thinks he is facing a complicated financing structure for redeveloping First National Center into a hotel, housing, retail and parking. It's a big deal with a price-tag of $230 million and involves a mix of tax credits and tax increment financing.

According to Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, the DOT could begin accepting applications by the end of July for the $500 million of TIGER grants authorized in the omnibus budget measure for fiscal 2017. 

Authors Sam Barend and Mary Peters provide several arguments in defense of using public-private partnerships to support both urban and rural infrastructure projects.

Many of the initiatives to move our energy system towards clean, renewable power emanate from the state and local levels. A few cities have already reached the 100 percent clean energy mark, with many more committing to eventually meet that standard.

CDFA's free brownfield technical assistance program has assisted the Hotel Grim in Texarkana, Texas by providing a report highlighting five strategies that can be utilized to support redevelopment of the site.

The MSRB's introduction of EMMA and its subsequent requirements for dealers to disclose near-real time information on the system has narrowed measures of market inefficiencies like price volatility and price differentials but has not eliminated the advantage institutional investors have over retail investors, according to a study from Komla Dzigbede.

A decreased reliance on bonds to finance capital investments has created a need for more municipal market research tools to analyze alternative forms of public financing, according to industry experts.

As part of the CDFA Brownfields Technical Assistance Program, CDFA is excited to release the Viet Village Roadmap to Redevelopment for Mary Queen Vietnam Community Development Corporation and Gulf Coast Housing Partnership in New Orleans, Louisiana.

During this installment of the CDFA//BNY Mellon Development Finance Webcast Series, we'll take a mid-year look at the capital markets, consider the financing trends that volume cap data is showing us, and discuss what you can expect during the last months of 2017.

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This report, produced by the New Markets Tax Credit Coalition, analyzes the flexibility and impact of the New Markets Tax Credit program.  Projects which benefitted from the Credit in the past year include rural and urban incubators, small business loan funds, main street tourism, health clinics, manufacturing, schools and even robotics.

This report, produced by AlphaFlow, investigates Real Estate crowdfunding. Real estate crowdfunding has become a new tool for raising real estate investment funds. It allows investors to "pool" their money together for a variety of real estate projects. These projects include single family homes, apartment buildings, commercial properties and even real estate development. In addition, many real estate crowdfunding investments are structured like loans and the investor is paid a stated interest payment.

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