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The key difference is that Vienna prioritizes subsidizing construction, while the United States prioritizes subsidizing people, with things like housing vouchers.
Lessons From a Renters’ Utopia
nytimes.com
The box gives you the opportunity to reflect on your performance. Dig down through the boxes archaeologically and you’ll see a project’s beginnings. This can be instructive. How did you do? Did you get to your goal? Did you improve on it? Did it change along the way? Could you have done it all more efficiently?”
Building a Second Brain
Tiago Forte
The Copenhagen (CPH) City Port & Development Corporation, which was created to use landed assets to finance the construction of public transportation infrastructure, helped turn the city around after decades of decline as a manufacturing hub. It borrowed against the value of the land it possessed to finance $2 billion in planned metro train expansions. After completion, the site in question was worth $450 million more than the original assessment, and this appreciation served as a revenue source for further infrastructure projects.
Rents Are Skyrocketing. Let’s Buy Back the Land. | NOEMA
noemamag.com
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