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Here's a subject worth deeper exploring at some point: A blog post about a program in Baltimore in which you can receive up to $2,000 cash for buying a home near where you work. In theory, this reduces traffic and transit demand, makes for a happier worker with a shorter commute, encourages efficient, higher density development, etc.

In LR, which is home to an enterprise zone program, companies could easily match a city contribution program with the share of the tax credit they receive for hiring people who live in the zone.

This reminds me, too, of cities that require city workers to live in the city limits. Not exactly the same thinking, but ...

Posted by Max Brantley on February 28, 2007 08:15 AM | Permalink

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That may be what UALR is thinking about in establishing their new University District outreach program. That Oak Forest neighborhood just east of the campus tons of those Heights-like bungalo. A nice tax break would be just the ticket to convert faculty and staff to be urban homesteaders.

Posted by: UncleEarl | February 28, 2007 09:41 AM

I live downtowna and own my own small business downtown with three employees. I participate in the enterprise zone and would be will to share my first year tax credit with my employees if it was going directly to the mortgage company for a new house downtown. Nobody has ever asked. me about doing this and I never thought about it. Like my momma taught me...If you dont ever ask, you will not ever know if you can get it.

Posted by: SamNLR | February 28, 2007 02:08 PM

What a novel idea! Imagine a Little Rock of the future where the cops actually lived within the city limits, heard the nightly gunshots, and returned home from work occassionally to find their outside A/C compressor dismantled & butchered for the scrap value of the copper tubing in it. Think that might make them more interested in making the neighborhood more secure?

Posted by: MysteryShopper | February 28, 2007 04:02 PM

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