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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 […]

The Key Challenge for Backyard Cottages in Seattle is Financing

Josh Kelety at the Capitol Hill Seattle Blog has a comprehensive post about the latest discussions about increasing the number of Detached Accessory Dwelling Units or DADUs also called backyard cottages. As we pointed out before, the main snag for most people interested in building a backyard cottage as housing, is financing. [Valdez] argues that while the […]