TIF

OTOC sent the following email just chock-full of useful information about the state of rental housing and renter protections in Omaha. We are reproducing it here as a public service.   Take [...]

[Presentation to the Omaha City Council Public Hearing on January 8, 2019, by PRI researcher Jack Dunn recommending TIF funds be denied to Dave Paladino. Ideas in this presentation came from [...]

Last month, the Omaha City Council approved a new occupancy tax for the popular and rapidly gentrifying Blackstone district. The World Herald Article covers the policy details, but the short [...]

Tax Increment Financing (TIF) is one of those dry, dusty legal terms that invite the reader’s eyes to glaze over and the pages (or their electronic device?) to drop from their hands. [...]

Gentrification is the replacement of one group of people – usually disadvantaged – with another group – usually (highly) advantaged. Gentrification is the result of several economic tendencies: [...]