School of Architecture and Planning

Hi Class, 

Here are the questions I plan to dicuss tomorrow as our reflection and review of the semester's work:

1.         How do you see development finance relating to the planning and community development fields? 

2.         How has your view of the importance of finance and its role in the economic development process changed since the first day?  What are the pluses and minuses of approaching economic or community development issues from a finance or capital availability perspective?

3.         What policies or programs models that we studied do you believe have the greatest value, the greatest potential to impact communities and people? Why?

4.         Do certain policies or programs models seem particularly important or well-suited to addressing the needs of low-income communities?

5.         Do any of the development finance organizations you studied or encountered in this class seem especially effective or impactful?  What about them seem to contribute to their impact?  

6.         Recognizing the individual institutions, policies and programs operate within a larger economic or community development financing system, what characterizes and contributes to a well functioning finance system in a region? What role do you see for planners in helping create an effective ecosystem?

  7.         What struck you as the most creative or innovative approach to financing a project, small business or addressing capital availability more broadly?    

  8.         What do you thinks of development finance as a field?  Is it an area you’d be interested in working in? How do the skills needed in development finance compare to those needed for other areas of planning?  

  9.         For those not planning to specialize in development finance, what did you learn that you expect to be most valuable for your professional goals? 

  10.     Are there topics that you think need more time and coverage?  Topics that seem less useful?

  11.     What did the project add to you learning experience? Did you gain any special insight about economic development or development finance from your work on the project?

 

 

 

Please read all of Chapter 15 in Economic Development Finance  for class tomorrow and review the Municipal Finance worksheeet.  We will cover the basics of TIF and discuss the issues raided in the Orlando TIF case  in tomorrow's class. 

A template for preparing the financial projections for the Manufacturer's Fund case is now posted on stellar under the November 24 materials .

Karl