The Build America Bonds (BABs) were taxable municipal bonds that provided federal tax breaks or subsidies for state and local government bondholders or issuers.
Hospital Income Bonds are a type of municipal bond that finances the construction of new facilities or the modernization of existing hospitals and is backed by the income that hospitals earn in the normal course of business.
Housing Authority bonds or housing bonds are issued by state or local governments to finance the construction or renovation of affordable rental housing.
Housing bonds are debt securities, a type of municipal income bond issued by state or local governments to raise funds for affordable housing development projects.
Overlapping debt is when the debt issued to finance the activities of the government falls on several political jurisdictions, while the joint debt is distributed among them.
Underlying debt is a term referring to municipal bonds that reflects the implicit understanding that the debt of smaller government entities can be secured by the creditworthiness of larger government entities.