As 2024 initiatives wrap up and municipalities begin to execute their 2025 agenda, municipal stakeholders are entering an uncertain market environment. While municipals closed 2024 in the black and issuance broke records, macroeconomic and policy uncertainty in Washington hang over infrastructure investment. To better understand how municipal stakeholders are thinking about infrastructure issues and priorities facing U.S. cities and towns, The Bond Buyer conducted the 2024 Investing in Infrastructure research.
This report details municipal stakeholders' views of an improved market environment from the down years of 2022 and 2023, outlining the challenges and opportunities to get major infrastructure projects done in the U.S. and how stakeholders view the role of federal legislative efforts in Washington as part of these efforts.
Topics within the report include:
- The overall greatest challenges municipal governments will face in 2025
- Where the urgency lies for ongoing infrastructure needs
- How municipalities are currently using or plan to use federal funds
- The need to prepare infrastructure for climate change risk