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1. Estimating Land Values Using Residential Sales Data

   Documentos de trabajo
   Agosto 2009
   Stanley D. Longhofer and Christian Redfearn

   In this research, we attempt to develop a statistically rigorous, but straightforward and tractable method by which vacant land sales on the periphery of a metropolitan area can be used to estimate...

2. Estimates of the Total Cost and Distribution of Tax Relief Under State Funded Property Tax Circuit Breakers

   Documentos de trabajo
   Marzo 2009
   Adam H. Langley

   This paper uses data from the 2006 American Community Survey to estimate the cost for state governments to fund three hypothetical property tax circuit breaker programs and a homestead exemption. The...

3. Housing Markets and the Economy

   Risk, Regulation, and Policy
   Libros
   Mayo 2009
   Edited by Edward L. Glaeser and John M. Quigley

   Based on a 2007 conference to honor the work of Karl “Chip” Case—an economist renowned for his scientific contributions to the economics of housing and public policy and co-creator...

4. Vivir en campamentos

   Preferencias de localización residencial en Santiago, Chile
   Revista Land Lines
   Octubre 2009
   Isabel Brain, José Joaquín Prieto, Francisco Sabatini, and Pablo Celhay

   Una versión más actualizada de este artículo está disponible como parte del capítulo 7 del CD-ROM Perspectivas urbanas: Temas críticos en políticas de suelo de América Latina. En las ciudades de...

5. Living in Slums

   Residential Location Preferences in Santiago, Chile
   Revista Land Lines
   Octubre 2009
   Isabel Brain, Pablo Celhay, José Joaquín Prieto, and Francisco Sabatini

   This study offers a new perspective on the location patterns and preferences of slum households. Underlying the family decision to live in a slum is an interest in increasing the probabilities of...

6. Challenges in Reusing Vacant, Abandoned, and Contaminated Urban Properties

   Revista Land Lines
   Abril 2009
   Margaret Dewar and Kris Wernstedt

   The character of institutions, political settings, and social relationships is critical in determining whether nonprofit developers are effective in reusing vacant, abandoned, and contaminated...

7. Measuring Informality in Housing Settlements

   Why Bother?
   Revista Land Lines
   Abril 2009
   Martim O. Smolka and Ciro Biderman

   The confusing and contradictory responses by Latin America experts who participated in our survey call attention to potentially misleading policies that might be fomented by erroneous perceptions and...

8. Inclusionary Housing, Incentives, and Land Value Recapture

   Revista Land Lines
   Enero 2009
   Nico Calavita and Alan Mallach

   We suggest that a better approach is to link IH to the ongoing process of rezoning—either by the developer or by local government initiative—thus treating it explicitly as a vehicle for...