Value Capture - Activating Markets for Social Change Conference

Publicly funded improvements, such as investments in infrastructure and planning and land use regulation, can affect the value of land and property. Value capture is a means to realize some portion of the increase as public revenue. In the face of declining revenue and mounting needs, value capture offers a number of strategies for leveraging capital investment. This panel will examine innovative strategies.
The annual USC Center for Social Innovation Center conference magnifies the impact of social innovators by bringing them together with change leaders from around the world in a common pursuit of equality of opportunity for children and families in marginalized urban communities. Corporate, nonprofit, public sector, and foundation leaders will delve into innovative strategies for leveraging capital sufficient in scale to significantly reduce concentrated poverty and improve social mobility in marginalized communities.
This day-and-a-half conference convenes a multi-disciplinary team of nationally and internationally-recognized scholars and practitioners to illuminate innovative strategies around value capture for local governments, state and regional tax approaches, Pay-for-Success/social impact bonds, comprehensive community initiatives, connecting communities to 21st century jobs, social entrepreneurship and social change and federal Promise Zones.
Panelists:
• Martim Smolka, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy (Framing)
Framing Paper (PDF) : Value-Capture
• Fred Silva, California Forward (Discussant)
Discussant Paper (PDF): Financing Community Revitalization
• Robert Cervero, University of California at Berkeley (Discussant)
Discussant Paper (PDF) : Sustainable Transit
• Marlon Boarnet, University of Southern California (Moderator)