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Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs): Understanding the Construction Connection

Construction Marketing

Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) are owners, operators, and financers of income-generating real estate properties. The primary purpose of a REIT is to generate income for its investors through rental income, capital gains, or both. Hybrid REITs combine the characteristics of both equity and mortgage REITs.

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The future of the 20-minute city

BD+C

The future of the 20-minute city 0 qpurcell Mon, 04/17/2023 - 14:20 Urban Planning Gensler's Stacey Olson breaks down the pros and cons of the "20-minute city," from equity concerns to data-driven design. They can be designed with principles rooted in sustainability, health and well-being, and social equity—or not.

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3 Takeaways from Living Future 2021

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Once again, Living Future 2021 convened a brilliant group of thought leaders and practitioners to discuss the intersection of climate, health, and equity in the built environment. Policies include setting a U.S. 2: ZERO CARBON REQUIRES INTEGRATED EMBODIED CARBON.

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Tapping LA’s Rooftop Solar Potential Could Benefit City’s Most Disadvantaged Communities

Business Facilities

Prior studies commissioned by the LABC Institute have concluded that Los Angeles has 10,000 acres of rooftop solar potential, enough to support a FIT far larger than the 600 megawatt program recommended in the study released from the USC Program for Environmental and Regional Equity (PERE) and the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation.

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Cracking the code of affordable housing

BD+C

million homes that are accessible to low-income renters. Nationwide, 60% of all workers earn less than what’s required to afford a two-bedroom rental home, according to a June report by the National Low Income Housing Coalition, which also cited the shortage of affordable housing.

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Virginia Incentives and Workforce Development Guide

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Transportation Partnership Opportunity Fund (TPOF): Provides grants, revolving loans or other financial tools and equity contributions to encourage the development of transportation projects and to provide monies to address the transportation aspects of economic development opportunities. Green Job Creation Tax Credit. TAX INCENTIVES.

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John Green’s Plan to Eliminate Predatory Lending Practices

Pro Builder

It’s a problem that John Green, managing principal of Blackstar Stability , wants to address with a comprehensive business model that puts at-risk Americans on a path to homeownership and financial stability. During that process, we transfer equity to those families and we’re also able to reduce monthly mortgage payments.

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