Show Notes
California cities are facing their deepest budget gaps since the Great Recession. City News goes inside how cities pay for what they do: where the money comes from, how zoning and tax increment districts turn development into revenue, how grants fund what budgets cannot, and what it means for the communities that depend on it.
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