Who pays to run Forest City — the schools, the hospitals, the bins?

Building a city and running one are different budgets, so let's separate them.

Building is the £45 billion — rail, reservoir, hospitals, schools, power — funded by the value of the city's commercial land, not the taxpayer. That's covered elsewhere in this FAQ.

Running works the way it does everywhere else in England, because Forest City's residents are taxpayers like everyone else: NHS funding follows patients, per-pupil funding follows children. What Forest City changes is the part that's normally broken — the buildings. A new hospital in Britain usually takes decades of lobbying; here, four are in the plan from day one, funded by land value rather than tax payers.