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Tax Increment Financing Harms Cities—Let’s Rein It In

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By Tom Tresser
| Shelterforce
In every state across the nation except Arizona, tax increment financing, or TIF—a mechanism that diverts tax revenue, especially property tax revenue, from a city’s general fund to subsidize redevelopment—is the law of the land. The nonprofit Good Jobs First indicates that there are well over 10,000 TIF districts operating across the U.S., involving billions of dollars annually that are siphoned away from schools and other public services to subsidize redevelopment.
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How to Use Art Spaces to Build Civic and Political Power

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By Tom Tresser, Aine Creedon
| Nonprofit Quarterly
Image Credit: People listen intently at a community forum held at at Black-owned Zucot Gallery, in Atlanta, GA. Photo courtesy of Zucot Gallery and The Art Brothers Foundation. How does one build a movement? It often helps to begin with people who are already in one place, are easy to reach, and share the values and goals of your proposed cause or campaign. That’s what the far right has been doing for over 50 years.
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Tom Tresser

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By Tom Tresser
| ZNetwork
Tom Tresser Tom Tresser is a Chicago-based civic educator and public defender who has spent 50 years doing grassroots democracy, community organizing, and work in the defense of public assets and services. He is the author of No Games Chicago: How a Small Group of Citizens Derailed the City’s 2016 Olympic Bid (Routledge, forthcoming). He can be reached at: www.tresser.com.
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