Lot Suit: City’s Motion to Dismiss Fails, Compares Housing to Porn, Drugs

Often, when the City is challenged in court, they make procedural motions to try and kill the appeal or suit before the merits of the case can be argued. The City made this move when they move to dismiss our appeal of low-rise legislation as the work of “a creature of the internet.” That move failed […]

TIFsplainer: Can We Use TIF to Build Housing on City Owned Land?

This post was written very quickly and mostly from memory. If you google my name and Tax Increment Financing, you’ll find a ton of stuff about many different aspects of this. But I wanted to get this all out even with some imperfections to get the conversation going. I’d suggest that along side this post […]

The 66th HALA Recommendation: Tax Increment Financing

For so many years, whenever I was in a room or panel and the issue of housing or urban development came up you could be sure that I would make sure Tax Increment Financing (TIF) got into the discussion. It was a predilection that I took with me when I went to work at the […]