Once again, a Cityfi Partner has been tapped for a senior leadership position in the Biden Administration. Gabe Klein will serve as the first-ever Executive Director of the Joint Office of Energy and Transportation. This new office, created through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, is between the U.S. …

By Karina Ricks One in four American adults are transportation insecure — meaning they lack the ability to regularly move from place to place in a safe and timely manner. According to a forthcoming paper in Socius by leading University of Michigan researchers, transportation insecurity is 2.5 times more prevalent…

By Camron Bridgford, AICP Principal at Cityfi “We’ve…we’ve already seen 1, 2 subdivisions burn to the ground. We…we don’t want to watch anymore. We shouldn’t have to watch anymore.” The day before New Year’s Eve had started out ordinarily enough; the second to last day of a thoroughly mediocre year…

Since the start of the COVID pandemic, local governments have faced myriad challenges, from implementing health measures to designing new ways to maintain essential services, all while facing revenue uncertainties. Now, as cities reopen and emerge from the pandemic, local governments face a new challenge: how to spend American Rescue…

With the passing of the bipartisan Infrastructure and Investment Jobs Act, we have the opportunity to set a new course for the electrification of our transportation system. It might seem simple: Just give incentives to drivers to buy electric cars and a home charger and watch the change happen. While…

The infrastructure bill is often described as the largest spend on a certain topic in history. There’s no doubt that infrastructure spending in the United States has lagged behind other nations for decades, but because of this, the communities that have most needed investment have continued to see divestment or…

Resiliency is an easy word to use but less easy to define. It indicates both the capacity to “bounce back” after a momentary setback and to endure a more persistent challenge or hypothetical future harm. The pending Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act converts the theory of resiliency into reality. The…

The biggest change over the last 30 years has been the growing significance of the world wide web in our lives. From business sales to communication to entertainment, the internet has burrowed its way into our lives, leaving hardly any nook or cranny undisturbed. Yet far too many Americans are…

Earlier this month, Cityfi’s Gabe Klein spoke with Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg as part of Miami CoMotion. During that conversation, Secretary Pete mentioned a Request for Information (RFI) that USDOT recently put out asking for input on how the department could incorporate equity into its project evaluation and prioritization…