This brochure from the National Association of Home Builders provides a state-by-state comparison of various infrastructure finance tools available to support housing and community development.

Brief program overview of Michigan's Business Improvement District/ Principal Shopping District/ Business Improvement Zone special assessment districts.

Clio Andris at National Association of Home Builders produced this document which explores some innovative ways to finance a school building or renovation project.

Margaret Comey and Gregory Daniels from Squire Sanders discuss the many development finance tools available in Ohio. This presentation includes tools, legal basis, and case studies.

Evans Paull with Northeast-Midwest Institutes presents proposals for Iowa to make strategic investments in Brownfields Redevelopment.

Wisconsin Dept. of Revenue's simplistic guide to understanding the states' tax increment district amendment.

Gregory Davis at Ohio State University briefly explains special improvement/assessment districts and how they work.

The Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh shares information about their effort to create large impact using TIF.

This guide from SB Friedman defines tax increment financing and addresses the policies and procedures for creating a TIF or similar district in Illinois.

The CDFA Tax Increment Finance Resource Center is a one-stop hub for all of the resources, reports, headlines, and projects that CDFA collects and publishes related to tax increment finance (TIF). Find links to resource tags, market reports,...

This report covers the best energy policies, including a lengthy section on financing programs, from many states and cities. Each program type is illustrated by at least one case study. The report was produced by the Renewable Energy & Energy...

Toby Rittner, CDFA President & CEO, gave this presentation on creative financing at the Brownfields 2011 conference. This document provides an overview of TIF and federal tax credit programs, which are financing tools that can be successfully...

This guide from William Blair & Co. provides an overview of the use of sales tax-backed bonds. Highlights from the document include an explanation of what sales tax bonds can finance and how they differ from traditional TIF bonds. The guide also...

Using unique, neighborhood-level data from New York City, Rachel Meltzer found that BIDs are associated with a significant, but substantively small, shift in the allocation of police and sanitation services. However, after instrumenting for BID...

This presentation by Laura Radcliff of Stifel Nicolaus gives a basic explanation of the use of public improvement districts and municipal management districts in Texas.

David Rogers of Bricker & Eckler looks at how solar special improvement districts (SIDs) and other federal programs for renewable energy work in this presentation.

John MacDonald of The University of Pennsylvania examined whether business improvement districts (BID) contributed to greater than expected declines in the incidence of violent crimes in affected neighborhoods. He found that the implementation of...

This presentation by Stern Brothers covers the basics of tax increment finance.

This presentation by CDFA President & CEO Toby Rittner and Ken Powell of Stone & Youngberg was given as part of a webinar for the National Association of Home Builders. The use of special districts and tax increment finance is discussed as an...

The Advanced Tax Increment Finance Reference Guide is the latest offering of CDFA’s nationally acclaimed Development Finance Training Institute in partnership with the Council’s Tax Increment Finance Coalition. The Advanced TIF Guide builds upon...

This presentation by Ken Powell of Stone & Youngberg examines recent trends and developments in the use of tax increment finance.

Alan Cason, partner at McGuireWoods LLP, and Ken Powell, managing director, Stone & Youngberg LLC discuss financing variations for TIF projects. The presentation contains several case study examples.

David Hawes, senior partner at Hawes Hill Calderon LLP, presents case study examples of TIF projects at work. The presentation discusses two TIF projects in Texas.

Ken Powell of Stone & Youngberg LLC discusses case study examples of how TIF, special assessment districts, credits and overlays have worked to help transform communities in Viriginia.

The Council of Development Finance Agencies (CDFA), Stifel Nicolaus & Company, Inc., and the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) have collaborated with teams of Tax Increment Finance (TIF) experts from across the country to develop the...

"Virginia Town & City" a publication of the Virginia Municipal League, uses its May 2008 issues to discuss the rise in popularity of Community Development Authorities as a means to finance economic development projects. The article also features...

The Minnesota House of Representatives Research Department created this fact sheet to help explain Special Service Districts (SSDs), the type of services they are able to provide and how they are established within the state.

Tom Chapin from Florida State Univeristy's Department of Urban and Regional Planning and John Thomas with the National Center for Environmental Assessment at the Environmental Protection Agency wrote this paper to look at Community Development...

Ken Powell presents case study examples of national trends in special district financing. These case studies look at projects that utilize special district financing and overlays to enhance typical TIF deals.

The National Association of Home Builders, in its Winter 2007Land Development magazine, takes a look at Tax Increment Financing and special district financing and how these tool can help address infrastructure needs and promote redevelopment.

Gregory Hummel of Bell, Boyd & Lloyd compares the use of TIF in three different Illinois cities. Also includes a walkthrough of the TIF process in Illinois.

John R. Orrick, Jr. of the law firm Linowes and Blocher LLP wrote this article explaining TIF and how to apply it. He discusses District based TIF projects, special taxing districts, as well as additional considerations including bond financing...

Greg Hummel of the firm Bell, Boyd and Lloyd presented at the CDFA Annual Summit, case study examples of how TIF has been used to transform several communities in Illinois.

David Roger with Bricker & Eckler, Brad Sprague and Jerry Arkebauer with Argus Growth Consultants presented at the CDFA Annual Summit about several case study projects and their results from using tax increment financing.

John Fonner, Executive Director of the Butler County Transportation Improvement District, Andrew Brossart from Fifth Third Bank, Chris Breda of Property Advisors and Price Finley from Argus Growth Partners talk about Butler County Transportation...

Stephen Heaney and Ken Powell of Stone & Youngberg, LLC talk about some of the trends in special district financing and how they work with TIF projects during their presentation at the CDFA Annual Summit.

Steve Heaney and Ken Powell, Managing Directors at Stone & Youngberg LLC produced this article for the National Association of Home Builder's Spring 2007 magazine. Their article looks at issues in financing home building. They make some...

Bill Calderon and Barron Wallace talk about the Texas TIRZ statute and how tax increment financing works within state.

This resource is a high-gloss look at BIDs in New York City.

This resource gives readers a understanding of how special district financing works in Highlands County, Florida. The handbook defines special districts, how to create new districts, work in already created districts, special assessment district...

Like many other states with tax increment financing, in New Jersey property tax is the primary source of increment available for these districts. Though state law permits the application of non-property taxes for RAD financing, localities are...

The International Downtown Association provides a number of resources for understanding how to implement Business Improvement Districts (BIDs). These publications cover the ABCs of BIDs and the impact of BIDs on revitalization efforts.

Publication by the Urban Land Institute that includes the latest information on BIDs. The guide covers best practices for planning, organizing, and financing BIDs; the services they provide; and how they are operated and managed. A leading expert,...

Website provided by the Municipal Research & Services Center of Washington that provides an overview of the state’s Parking & Business Improvement Areas (PIBA) program. Includes links to state statues, rules and regulations and sample PIBAs from...

Article by Lawrence O. Houstoun, Jr., AICP detailing the use of BIDs for urban entertainment and cultural center development. Highlights the role of BIDs in the urban redevelopment process and reviews the costs and benefits of such programs.

Article by Heather Mac Donald from the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research as published in the May 1996 edition of the Civic Bulletin. This article details the success and achievement of the BID programs across the country and provides a good...

This review of BIDs was prepared as part of the 'Privatization and Devolution: Challenges for Urban Public Management' course from Cornell University in June 2002. The article provides a solid overview of the use of BIDs to provide economic...

This research piece provides a detailed overview of the use of BIDs covering the history, present status and future of the use of BIDs. The piece also provides several good examples of BIDs in action and theoretical fodder for the support of this...

These fact sheets describes various special districts in California. Each sheet explains a different type of property tax, from Mello-Roos and Assessment Districts, to Vehicle Parking districts and more text explains a different type of property...

High quality sample report from the City of Los Angeles Downtown BID.