Thursday, January 26, 2012

Redevelopment Leaves Behind $30 Billion Debt, Hundred-Millions in “Other Expenditures”



It turns out California’s redevelopment agencies—which, I just love to keep saying, will be abolished in a week—have produced something beside corruption, poverty, and blight: The RDAs have also run up nearly $30 billion in debt that must be serviced by Golden State taxpayers.

That’s according to California Controller John Chiang in his most recent Community Redevelopment Agencies Annual Report [pdf]. 

Read more: http://reason.com/archives/2012/01/25/redevelopment-leaves-behind-30-billion-d

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