Smart Cities Dive, January 2025
New year, same city challenges. In 2025, urban leaders will continue to face problems of rising homelessness and housing costs, climate change-driven disasters, transit agency financial woes and traffic deaths. But local governments continue to experiment with emerging technologies and pioneering policies that show potential for addressing these and other persistent urban problems.
Local leaders are expecting less support from the incoming Trump administration for many of their priorities, as federal funding and policies are likely to see dramatic shifts. President-elect Donald Trump is expected to prioritize tax cuts and deregulation and has threatened to rescind all unspent Inflation Reduction Act funds and lead a mass deportation of immigrants. Experts also expect the Trump administration to cut support for public transportation in favor of roads and rural areas.
