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Finance Decoder

The Check-Up Your City Can't Afford to Skip

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Visualize your city’s financial trajectory.
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Understand whether your city is on track to keep its development, service, and growth promises.
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Recommended by national municipal finance institutions.
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Years of Budgeting, Clarified in an Afternoon.

Input a handful of your city's publicly-available financial numbers and automatically produce 7 indicator charts to visualize the financial trajectory of your place.

 
 
 
 

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The fiscal health of our cities isn’t shaped by a single budget or council vote—it’s the result of decades of decisions, policies and development patterns. If you’ve used the Finance Decoder to uncover your community’s financial trajectory, share your findings and help paint the bigger picture.

 

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Finance in a Strong Town

Your city can't afford to keep its promises. Strong Towns is uncovering why, and offering a way forward.

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