* FIU
Study - Removing
Barriers
* Miami-Dade
Infill
Housing
* CDBG/HOME
Recomendations
*
Miami-Dade FY 2005
Policies
* Report Card - Miami-Dade Infill
Housing
* "TIF" Infill Financing
* New Ideas for
Infill Initiative
* "Lienfield"
Initiative
* Housing
in "Distressed" Neighborhoods
* Proposed Amendments - Infill
* Inner City Land Reform -
Brookings
* Infill
Strategy Task Force
* Transit
Oriented Development
* Mixed use HUD 202 and 811
* 2003 CDBG/HOME
Recomendations
* Tax
Increment Financing
* Issues
with Home Repair Lending
* CDBG, HOME, and Surtax/SHIP
* Rethinking Manufactured
Housing
* "Eastward
Ho!" Recomendations
Infrastructure
Upgrade Initiative
Decrepit
water, sewer and street systems inhibit inner city development efforts. Developers are not given building permits unless they first agree to pay for the
cost of upgrading the existing systems. The extra costsmean that deals
don't get done. What is proposed is a massive new investment in
upgrading decripit infrastructure. We propose paying for it, in part,
with the same types of public financing mechanisms that are used to
finance stadiums and arenas for professional sports teams
Infill
Housing Development Initiative
The goal is to create a partnership between local
government and nonprofit sector developers to dramatically increase the
construction of new home ownership units that are affordable to low and
moderate income families. The goal, therefore, must be to identify and
eliminate constraints. The Challenge is that Developers have difficulty
finding market opportunities in older low income neighborhoods. Many
years of neglect has led to an inadequate infrastructure. Simply put,
it is more difficult and more expensive making deals work in these
neighborhoods
| Neighborhood Development Zones
A new paradigm for community based
development is needed. CDC are forming partnerships to systematically
identify and then eliminate the barriers that inhibit market-based
development activities in specific low income communities
Bank
Partnership Initiative
Specific
proposals for strengthening bank participation in community development
ventures. Suggestions include: more bank equity investments in CDC
sponsored real estate develoment ventures; more bank purchasing of
501(c)(3) tax exempt bonds, more bank pre-development lending for CDCs.
Housing
Development as Economic Development
If we could only somehow accelerate housing
production in the new "Neighborhood Development Zones" a multitude of
market opportunities could unfold for zone businesses who were engaged
in the various construction trades (e.g. plumbers, carpenters, masons,
electricians, land scapers, painters, security, etc.). CDBG "economic
development funds" should be used to help these businesses to fully
participate. The package of assistance could include things like help
with the bonding requirements, assistance in responding to bid
solicitations, access to "accounts receivables" financing, etc..
Loan
Guarantee Initiative
An alternate model for using CDBG to meet the credit needs to these
types of small businesses that have difficulty in accessing traditional
bank lending
Single
Family Home Ownership
The Goal: create a partnership between local
government and nonprofit sector developers to dramatically increase the
construction of new home ownership units that are affordable to low and
moderate income families.
CDBG, HOME, and
Surtax/SHIP
Don't Use These Programs to Fill Miami-Dade County
Budget Gaps
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