Video and Podcasts

"Reducing Sprawl, Poverty & Inequality By Terminating Land Speculation" a 1 hour webinar at the Just Economy Conference, sponsored by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, May 2021.
“Collecting the Hidden Value of Public Transit.” Rybeck leads a panel discussion about transit funding at a 2019 conference in Pittsburgh, PA.
“Land Value Return & Recycling: Funding Infrastructure for Prosperity, Sustainability & Equity.” Rybeck speaks at Build Maine, June 2018.
“Funding Infrastructure with Value Capture,” Transportation Research Board Recorded Presentation, March 2019
“Funding Infrastructure for Prosperity, Equity & Sustainability,” Strong Towns Podcast #164, January 31, 2014
“Funding Infrastructure for Affordable & Sustainable Communities,” The Center for State Innovation, State Policy Directors’ Meeting, October 2011

Articles

"An Un-Fare Kind of Evasion," Greater Greater Washington, February 25, 2025
“Land Value Return and Building a More Equitable Economy," Shareable, January 27, 2022
Gentrification & Blight: Relationship to Involuntary Displacement,” American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Vol. 79, No. 2, p. 541, March, 2020
“Avoiding Misgivings: Recycling Community-Created Land Values for Affordability, Sustainability and Equity,” Journal of Affordable Housing and Community Development Law, Vol 28 No 2, p. 299, October 2019
“The Jobs-Housing Hamster Wheel,” August 20, 2018
“Financing Infrastructure with Value Capture: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly,” February 21, 2018
“Want Affordable Housing? Look to the Land,” Solid Ground Campaign Blog, May 17, 2016 (JE_AffordableHousing.pdf)
“Funding Infrastructure to Rebuild Equitable, Green Prosperity,” Revitalization News, July 15, 2015
“Fixing the Political Disconnect Between Infrastructure Needs and Funding,” GOVERNING, October 3, 2013
“Break the Boom and Bust Cycle,” Rick Rybeck and Walter Rybeck, PM Magazine, August 2012
“Economic Incentives for Affordable and Sustainable Development,” on the Zintro Blog, June 27, 2012
“Using Value Capture to Finance Infrastructure and Encourage Compact Development” in PUBLIC WORKS MANAGEMENT & POLICY, Vol. 8 No. 4, April 2004, pp. 249-260.
Transit-Induced Land Values: Development & Revenue Implications, Economic Development Commentary (CUED) Vol 5, No 4, October 1981

Reports

“Guidebook to Funding Transportation Through Land Value Return and Recycling (NCHRP Report 873)” Transportation Research Board, April, 2018
“Funding Long-Term Infrastructure for Growth, Sustainability & Equity,” DC Tax Revision Commission, September 20, 2013; Also, links to appendices to this report can be obtained from the DC Tax Revision website.
“Public Acceptability of Road Use Pricing-Literature Review,” Just Economics, The Brookings Institution, April 28, 2012
“Clean Air Compliance Fee Act of 1994,” DC Law 10-242, was drafted by Rybeck when he worked for the Honorable Hilda H.M. Mason.

Presentations

"The Intersection of Affordable Housing & Climate Change," Shelterforce 50thAnniv Conf, April 2025
“Land Value Return for Equitable and Sustainable Prosperity,” World Economic Finance & Business Conference, Singapore, July 2024
Visiting Scholar, The George Washington University. Taught a one-day course, “Rewriting Development Rules for Prosperity, Sustainability & Equity,” for the Environmental & Energy Management Institute in the School of Engineering & Applied Science on January 12, 2021.
“Infrastructure Perversity: Why No Good Deed Goes Unpunished,” Martin Tuchman School of Management, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Infrastructure Finance Workshop: Neward, NJ, Nov 17, 2017
“Value Capture Methods,” Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting: Washington, DC, January 11, 2015
“Revitalizing Markets and Achieving Smart Growth,” Southern New England American Planning Association Conference: Hartford, CT, Sept 20, 2012
“Transit-Oriented Development and Value Capture: What is it? Does it work? How can you use it? Stories and Lessons from the Front Lines,” Pittsburgh Community Reinvestment Group’s Second Annual Community Development Summit: Pittsburgh, PA, May 24, 2012
“Value Capture’s Potential to Fund Transit,” Transit: Critical Issues Symposium sponsored by the DeVoe Moore Center, Florida State University: Tallahassee, FL, May 15, 2012
“Tactical Urbanism, Economics and Community,” The 20th Congress for New Urbanism: West Palm Beach, FL, May 12, 2012
“Integrating Transportation & Land Use for Sustainability & Equity,” World Bank, Brown Bag Lunch Series, Washington, DC, April 11, 2012
“Funding Infrastructure for Affordable & Sustainable Communities,” The Center for State Innovation, State Policy Directors’ Meeting, October 2011
“Successfully Financing Mixed-Use Development and Place-Making Infrastructure,” Solutions for Sustainable Communities: Washington, DC, September 26, 2011
“Toward Sustainable Infrastructure,” American Planning Association, PA Chapter: Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Oct 3-5, 2010
“User Fees for the Invisible User,” Innovations in Pricing of Transportation Systems: Orlando, Florida, May 13-14, 2010
“Exploring Funding Through Real Estate Development” and “Potential & Scope for Non-Fare Revenue,” MetroRail 2010 Conference: London, England, March 22, 2010