News outlets including the Toronto Star and MetroNews Toronto have cited IMFG’s recent paper on tax increment financing (TIF) and author Murtaza Haider in articles about the city of Toronto’s proposed use […]
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29 Aug,
2016
Murtaza Haider quoted in TVO’s The Next Ontario
John Michael McGrath mentioned IMFG’s paper on tax increment financing for transit infrastructure, authored by Murtaza Haider and Liam Donaldson, in a The Next Ontario post called Can a private […]
Find out more »28 Jul,
2016
Did the Land Transfer Tax Impact Housing Sales in Toronto?
New paper from the Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance finds no evidence that Toronto’s Land Transfer Tax alone reduced housing sales in the GTA.
Find out more »31 May,
2016
Enid Slack contributed a blog posting on urban infrastructure financing
IMFG Director Enid Slack was invited by the New Cities Foundation to moderate a panel on Solving Urban Water Challenges, at a conference on “Innovations in Urban Infrastructure Financing” in […]
Find out more »30 May,
2016
IMFG was mentioned in a ReNew Canada article about infrastructure projects
IMFG was mentioned in a ReNew Canada article called, “A Roadmap to On Time, On Budget for Mega-Project Planning.”
Find out more »26 Apr,
2016
The costs of wild weather: how cities should pay for stormwater infrastructure
New Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance (IMFG) Perspectives Paper suggests cities should charge user fees to pay for stormwater infrastructure upgrades.
Find out more »29 Mar,
2016
Can cities use tax increment financing to pay for transit infrastructure?
New IMFG Paper studies Toronto’s Sheppard subway line and offers cautionary advice to city policymakers about tax increment financing.
Find out more »16 Mar,
2016
IMFG’s Perspectives Paper on cost overruns discussed on TVO
IMFG’s Perspectives paper (No. 11) by Matti Siemiatycki was discussed in an article on TVO, “Why infrastructure projects are chronically over budget.”
Find out more »22 Jan,
2016
IMFG’s new Perspectives Paper on how cities can avoid cost overruns by Matti Siemiatycki was featured in the Globe and Mail
IMFG’s recent Perspectives paper (No. 11) by Matti Siemiatycki was discussed in a Globe and Mail article, “Five steps to control megaproject costs.”
Find out more »22 Jan,
2016
IMFG’s new Perspectives Paper by Matti Siemiatycki was featured in On-Site Magazine
On January 21, 2016 IMFG held an event and released a new IMFG Perspectives paper by UofT Professor Matti Siemiatycki on infrastructure cost overruns. The event and paper were featured […]
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