Public Policy
San Franciscans assume that one day an earthquake will hit their city hard, thanks to the geologic fault line that runs below it. But one neighborhood leader has taken lessons from Hurricane Katrina, Los Angeles’ riots, and the Northridge earthquake to prepare.
Public and private capital can be combined–and leveraged–to provide more workforce housing.
With the vote on San Francisco’s waterfront height limit resolved last week, it’s time for residents to move on to more pressing waterfront issues: namely, rising sea levels.
After the recession, governments across the United States rethought TIF.
Industry leaders with experience in North America, Europe, and Asia share the latest on building energy efficiency.
For the most part, transit-oriented developments, or TODs, remain individualized projects, planned in isolation from their surrounding communities.
For international investors, the EB-5 immigration program means access to a precious U.S. green card. For developers, it means low-cost cash–but not without controversy.
The U.S. Congress might finally kill Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two mortgage giants that still raise the capital for the vast majority of home loans.
Public policy can help efforts to reduce energy use when the building owner is not the utility’s customer.
Despite his significant expertise with public/private partnerships (P3s) in the United States, Jay Hailey, an attorney at DLA Piper, found something new to share with attendees at the 2014 ULI Spring Meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia: the Canadian P3 model.