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How Land Value Capture Can Pay for Infrastructure, Affordable Housing, and Public Services
Revista Land LinesSeptiembre 2022By Will Jason, September 14, 2022As cities and towns seek funding for transportation, parks, affordable housing, and other public goods, they often overlook one of their most valuable assets—land. A new Policy Focus Report from the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy shows how local governm
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Research, Public Sector Policy Change, Advocacy, Philanthropy and the Private Sector Collide to Create an Affordable Housing and Economic Development Opportunity in Colorado
The Case of indieDwellDocumentos de trabajoJunio 2021Phyllis Resnick and Jennifer NewcomerOn July 6, 2020, modular builder indieDwell opened a factory in Pueblo, Colorado with a capacity of 160,000 square feet of housing and plans for expansion. indieDwell’s journey to Colorado was...
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Tax Battles
Cities Seek Higher Payments in Lieu of Taxes from NonprofitsRevista Land LinesMarzo 2020By Liz Farmer, March 4, 2020At a recent rally in front of Baltimore City Hall, activists sang, chanted, and otherwise voiced their view that the city’s major nonprofit institutions weren’t “paying their fair share” of property...
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Designing Land Value Capture Tools in the Context of Complex Tenurial and Deficient Land Use Regulatory Regimes in Accra, Ghana
Documentos de trabajoMarzo 2019Samuel Banleman BiitirRapid urbanization has increased the demand for urban infrastructure services. Municipalities have attempted to finance infrastructure services with value capture instruments. The paper highlights...
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Municipal Fiscal Structures and Land-Based Growth in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area
Documentos de trabajoEnero 2007Carol E. HeimThis case study examines municipal fiscal structures in the Phoenix metropolitan area, with a focus on Scottsdale, Chandler, and Fountain Hills. It explores implications of the quest for sales tax...
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Lessons from Attempted Utopia
Fairhope, Alabama, and Arden, DelewareDocumentos de trabajoDiciembre 2004Matthew M. HarrisThe towns of Fairhope, Alabama and Arden Delaware were founded in 1894 and 1900 respectively. Both were intentional communities founded to demonstrate the economic principles advocated by Henry...
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Urban Sprawl
Documentos de trabajoJulio 2004Thomas J. Nechyba and Randall WalshModern usage of the term “sprawl” was coined in 1937 by Earle Draper—one of the first city planners in the southeastern United States (Black, 1996). By the end of World War II, the...
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An Examination into the Effects of Land Value Taxation in the UK
An Update of the Whitstable Case StudiesDocumentos de trabajoJulio 2004Greg McGill and Frances PlimmerThe aim of this study is to update the valuation exercises which were undertaken in 1963 and 1973 in order to assess the practicability of introducing a Land Value Tax in the UK. The original studies...
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Urban Sprawl in a U.S. Metropolitan Area
Ways to Measure and a Comparison of the Sacramento Area to Similar Metropolitan Areas in California and the U.S.Documentos de trabajoEnero 2000Robert W. WassmerFor more than forty years, urban planners, environmentalists, and other social engineers have used the pejorative catch phrase of urban sprawl to categorize much of what Americans dislike about...
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Rethinking Property Tax Incentives for Business
Enfoques en políticas de sueloJunio 2012State and local governments use many types of property tax incentives to increase business development. This report reviews those incentives, summarizes the literature regarding their effectiveness,...
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