U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue includes empowering public-private partnerships to leverage federal dollars in the recently announced U.S. Department of Agriculture's Farm Bill and Legislative Principles for 2018.

The Maine Department of Economic and Community Development is moving forward with the development of a regional center to connect foreign investors to projects in Maine, such as a $40 million Chinese medical tourism facility proposed for Auburn.

The Clean Energy Credit Union is an exclusively web-based organization, servicing all 50 states. Anyone will be able to open an account for deposits, but the credit union will only offer loans to individuals or organizations that are using that money for renewable energy or energy efficiency investments.

Muni market participants are pleased that the latest purported version of the Trump administration's infrastructure plan would expand and ease restrictions on private activity bonds so that they could play a major role in helping to finance infrastructure projects.

The planned new Western New York Workforce Training Center now under construction in the Northland Corridor will receive $14 million in federal New Markets Tax Credits to support the overall redevelopment project on Buffalo's East Side.

The City and County of Honolulu is scheduled to issue $305 million in wastewater system revenue bonds the week of January 22, 2018. Capital additions and improvements are determined under a long-term Capital Improvement Plan.

Ohio is home to the winner of the U.S. Dept. of Transportation's first "Smart City Challenge" – Columbus – which has a vision for the future of how goods and people are moved. This initiative is one of many examples of where Ohio is excelling in the smart mobility transformation.

The Rhode Island Housing Board of Commissioners unanimously approved $837,000 in 2018 LIHTCs for a 42-unit affordable housing development.

Lawmakers are eyeing a plan that would allow every city in West Virginia, no matter how small, to create tax increment financing districts — a power that is currently reserved for counties and a handful of the state's largest cities.

Sens. Cornyn (R-TX) and Warner (D-VA) have introduced the BUILD Act, a bill that would allow more private activity bonds to be used in connection with public-private partnership arrangements for certain infrastructure projects.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is urging Congress to develop an infrastructure plan that includes a 25 cents per gallon increase in the gas tax and an expansion of the use of private activity bonds through public-private partnerships.

The CDFA Federal Financing Webinar Series is an exclusive, five-part online offering that will convene finance experts, federal agencies, and local practitioners to discuss the development finance programs offered by the federal government.

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