## Brief: public enterprise stub public enterprise is the use of government-owned entities to do things markets won't do at the right price, scale, or timing. the Center for Public Enterprise (CPE) is the main org you follow here — their work covers housing, energy, and finance. the key models: - **public developer / revolving loan fund**: a local government issues bonds, builds market-rate housing, uses rents to fund more construction in downturns. countercyclical by design. distinct from social housing — a public developer model can *assist* subsidized housing by freeing up federal capacity, but the two aren't the same thing - **public renewables**: government-owned clean energy, see [PublicRenewables.org](https://www.PublicRenewables.org) - **nationalization as regulatory response**: e.g. Tesla supercharger network (see [[electric vehicles]]) — treating private infrastructure that became a de facto public utility as something the state should own > [!question] what do you actually know about where public enterprise has worked? > CPE's site ([publicenterprise.org](https://publicenterprise.org)) and the Montgomery County model for housing are the grounding cases you've cited. worth a deeper read and linking specific outcomes here rather than just the concept. the broader framing: public enterprise isn't socialism in the ideological sense, it's a pragmatic tool for situations where private markets fail on timeline, scale, or risk. the countercyclicality argument is probably the strongest one for housing specifically. ### tasks - [ ] read CPE's Montgomery County case study and add specific outcomes to [[public enterprise]] — this is the main evidence base for the public developer model - [ ] decide if [[public enterprise]] should have subsections by domain (housing, energy, finance) or stay as a single overview with links out - [ ] [[vacancy]] and [[land value tax]] may be related — check if they should link to or from [[public enterprise]] ### links - [Center for Public Enterprise](https://publicenterprise.org) - [Public Renewables](https://www.PublicRenewables.org) - [[housing & land use]] - [[electric vehicles]] - [[climate & energy]]