Episode 404: The Public Wealth of Cities
Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast
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New Forms of Land Licensing
Matt Welch: I think it's really important to see as a preliminary here that even if the public authority is able to get a good price for, you know, selling land or real estate, it's really not in the long term public interest to do that. There's always going to be a better way of serving the public interest than like sort of fully disposing of land into the private market and allowing a private owner to maximize profit from it. So in between these two options, there's a really interesting unexplored territory of new forms of licensing, basically, that cities can use and explore.
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