Private activity bonds

The new rules governing low-income housing tax credits and private are already affecting the development of affordable housing.

Provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act designed to jump start affordable housing development are starting to trickle out into the market in the form of tax-exempt and taxable bond combos.

The administration is seeking industry feedback on funding mechanisms and the use of public-private partnerships in spaceport development.

Lobbyists and lawyers are both watching three pieces of legislation that would expand the use of private activity bonds in housing, transportation infrastructure, and student loans.

A new bill would increase the capacity of state and local housing finance agencies to issue tax-free municipal housing bonds by exempting them from the PAB cap.

Lifting the PABs cap is a priority for transportation advocates, lawmakers from both sides of the aisle and the Trump administration.

Volume-cap allocations can reveal which projects will gain access to tax-exempt financing and which may be crowded out, making private-activity bond rules a practical signal for issuers, advisors and investors, according to Market Intelligence analyst Jeff Lipton.

Congress should also eliminate the mass transit account from the Highway Trust Fund, and consolidate all federal fuel tax revenues into the HTF, the USDOT proposed.

With the future of U.S. public funding for infrastructure remains cloudy in terms of quantity and delivery methods, sentiment appears to be shifting towards allowing more private investment.

The groups are taking additional steps to try to stop or pause development of a major industrial park between New Orleans and Baton Rouge.

The President is pumping the brakes on signing the first major housing bill in 30 years including a provision that lifts the public welfare cap, a move that could spur bond sales.

With nearly $4.5 billion of tax-exempt bonds, a restructuring or bankruptcy would be among the muni market's largest to date.

Reason's latest transportation finance report lays out barriers to U.S. pension funds investing in infrastructure and the P3 pipeline.

The Trump administration and several states are leaning into public private partnerships as the idea of inviting private investment into public infrastructure gains more acceptance.

The Maryland Economic Development Corporation and the Internal Revenue Service have reached a resolution in a tax squabble over a bond issuance where proceeds of the sale were not spent within a three-year time window.

A major multiple-amended housing bill that is expected to expand the use of private activity bonds passes the House and bounces back to the Senate, but obstacles remain over provisions regulating institutional investors.

While the surface transportation reauthorization remains a work in progress, advocates for high-speed rail travel are exploring the benefits of public private partnerships

The administration's effort to revitalize the maritime industry includes opportunities for public-private partnerships.

The U.S. Department of Transportation is looking for proposals that leverage public private partnerships to solve traffic bottlenecks through the use of tolled express lanes .

Space Florida would own the assets and lease them to Project Jaguar, Space Florida's Ron Lau said.