Economic Architecture The Podcast
A new approach showing that resilience infrastructure is a market worth building [Episode 46]
In this week’s episode, Rachel Halfaker, director of the 10,000 Communities Initiative at the Milken Institute, and director Alexander Meeks, share their insights on a new market approach in financing resilient infrastructure projects. In the face of extreme weather, there is an increased need for community resilience hubs like libraries and public schools to support our communities in times of disaster. How can secondary markets create a new way to fund resilience infrastructure sooner rather than later? Host Stuart Yasgur, Rachel Halfaker, and Alexander Meeks discuss the market mechanisms that…
In this week’s episode, Rachel Halfaker, director of the 10,000 Communities Initiative at the Milken Institute, and director Alexander Meeks, share their insights on a new market approach in financing resilient infrastructure projects. In the face of extreme weather, there is an increased need for community resilience hubs like libraries and public schools to support our communities in times of disaster. How can secondary markets create a new way to fund resilience infrastructure sooner rather than later?
Host Stuart Yasgur, Rachel Halfaker, and Alexander Meeks discuss the market mechanisms that support resilience infrastructure financing, ways to bring together different forms of capital to support resilience projects as early as the pre-development stage, and how the community resilience infrastructure space may benefit from integrating new technologies.
Learn more about the 10,000 Communities Initiative: https://www.10kcommunities.org/
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