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Anthony Flint

is a fellow and director of public affairs at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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How value capture can save New York City’s subways

Value capture, in which the public sector recovers some of the value created by government actions like the construction of a transit line or a rezoning, has recently joined congestion pricing among the most discussed potential funding streams for New York City’s troubled subway system. And it can work.