PPD 227 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Economic Inequality, Eminent Domain, Affordable Housing

• School: USC
• Department: Policy, Planning, and Development
• Course: PPD 227
• Professor: Alan Kreditor

Document Summary

These reflect the fiscal health of the community: income gap, the difference between the incomes is too great, creates and unhealthy atmosphere, shrinking of the middle class, an intensification of poverty. Waive taxes and fees in order to encourage certain behaviors or industries. State and government poor dollars into programs for training for job transfer: grants. Encourages growth, enhances public welfare: land/site preparation. Acquire properties and prepare them, clearance, compaction. Enhancing economy for the benefit of all. Discounted price to bidder: infrastructure development. Encourage private investment response, metro rail system, trolley lines: discounted sales of property. Government owns a certain amount of property at a time, an inducement to investment: tax relief. You get more profits if your taxes have been relieved. Income disparities: the lowest quintile as a percentage of the highest quintile, >10, growing the economy is the important measure so more money is flowing through the community.