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Evaluación de la contribución de valorización en Colombia
April 2011, Spanish
La “contribución de valorización”, que en Estados Unidos se conoce como betterment levy o special assessment y en otros países, especialmente de América Latina, se denomina “contribución por mejoras”, es una “carga impositiva generada por un gobierno a los propietarios de un grupo de inmuebles seleccionados para sufragar, totalmente o en parte, el costo de […]
Infrastructure, Property Tax, Public Finance, Value Capture
April 2011, Spanish
La “contribución de valorización”, que en Estados Unidos se conoce como betterment levy o special assessment y en otros países, especialmente de América Latina, se denomina “contribución por mejoras”, es una “carga impositiva generada por un gobierno a los propietarios de un grupo de inmuebles seleccionados para sufragar, totalmente o en parte, el costo de […]
Infrastructure, Property Tax, Public Finance, Value Capture
Perfil Docente
Ciro Biderman
April 2011, Spanish
Ciro Biderman es profesor asociado en los programas de grado y postgrado de administración pública y economía en la Fundación Getulio Vargas (FGV) de São Paulo; investigador asociado en el Centro de Estudios de Política y Economía del Sector Público (CEPESP/FGV); e investigador asociado en el Laboratorio de Urbanismo Metrópolis de la Universidad Estatal de […]
Economic Development, Housing, Informal Settlements
April 2011, Spanish
Ciro Biderman es profesor asociado en los programas de grado y postgrado de administración pública y economía en la Fundación Getulio Vargas (FGV) de São Paulo; investigador asociado en el Centro de Estudios de Política y Economía del Sector Público (CEPESP/FGV); e investigador asociado en el Laboratorio de Urbanismo Metrópolis de la Universidad Estatal de […]
Economic Development, Housing, Informal Settlements
Report From the President
Housing—Future Imperfect
Gregory K. Ingram
April 2011, English
From 2000 to the end of 2005, the value of U.S. residential land and dwellings increased from $14 trillion to $24 trillion. Until about 2002, housing price increases had followed the normal pattern from the mid-1980s, and housing prices grew along with household incomes. But starting in 2002 housing prices began to grow much faster […]
Economic Development, Housing
April 2011, English
From 2000 to the end of 2005, the value of U.S. residential land and dwellings increased from $14 trillion to $24 trillion. Until about 2002, housing price increases had followed the normal pattern from the mid-1980s, and housing prices grew along with household incomes. But starting in 2002 housing prices began to grow much faster […]
Economic Development, Housing
The New American Ghost Towns
Justin B. Hollander, Colin Polsky, Dan Zinder, and Dan Runfola
April 2011, English
Over the last several years, growing public attention has centered on the fallout from the subprime lending debacle—an unprecedented event that has resulted in massive foreclosures and widespread housing vacancy in what had been the perennially growing Sunbelt (Goodman 2007; Leland 2007). Across the southern United States, from Atlanta, to Fort Meyers, to Phoenix, massive […]
Economic Development, Housing, Urbanization
April 2011, English
Over the last several years, growing public attention has centered on the fallout from the subprime lending debacle—an unprecedented event that has resulted in massive foreclosures and widespread housing vacancy in what had been the perennially growing Sunbelt (Goodman 2007; Leland 2007). Across the southern United States, from Atlanta, to Fort Meyers, to Phoenix, massive […]
Economic Development, Housing, Urbanization
The Municipal Fiscal Crisis and Payments in Lieu of Taxes by Nonprofits
Daphne A. Kenyon and Adam H. Langley
April 2011, English
Municipalities around the country face a daunting fiscal crisis. Federal stimulus assistance has expired, and many states have made significant cuts in aid to municipalities. Meanwhile property values have declined 31 percent since their 2006 peak according to the S&P/Case-Shiller national home price index. It will take several years to know how this historic decline […]
Economic Development, Local Government, Property Tax, Public Finance
April 2011, English
Municipalities around the country face a daunting fiscal crisis. Federal stimulus assistance has expired, and many states have made significant cuts in aid to municipalities. Meanwhile property values have declined 31 percent since their 2006 peak according to the S&P/Case-Shiller national home price index. It will take several years to know how this historic decline […]
Economic Development, Local Government, Property Tax, Public Finance
Betterment Levy in Colombia
Relevance, Procedures, and Social Acceptability
April 2011, English
The betterment levy or special assessment (as it is known in the United States) is a “compulsory charge imposed by a government on the owners of a selected group of properties to defray, in whole or in part, the cost of a specific improvement or services that is presumed to be of general benefit to […]
Infrastructure, Property Tax, Public Finance, Value Capture
April 2011, English
The betterment levy or special assessment (as it is known in the United States) is a “compulsory charge imposed by a government on the owners of a selected group of properties to defray, in whole or in part, the cost of a specific improvement or services that is presumed to be of general benefit to […]
Infrastructure, Property Tax, Public Finance, Value Capture
Faculty Profile
Weidong Qu
April 2011, English
Weidong Qu is a research fellow at the Peking University–Lincoln Institute Center for Urban Development and Land Policy in Beijing, and an associate professor in the Department of Land and Real Estate Management at Renmin University of China. Dr. Qu’s research interests include real estate appraisal, land and cadastral management, fuzzy cluster analysis, GIS programming […]
Property Tax, Public Finance, Urbanization
April 2011, English
Weidong Qu is a research fellow at the Peking University–Lincoln Institute Center for Urban Development and Land Policy in Beijing, and an associate professor in the Department of Land and Real Estate Management at Renmin University of China. Dr. Qu’s research interests include real estate appraisal, land and cadastral management, fuzzy cluster analysis, GIS programming […]
Property Tax, Public Finance, Urbanization
China’s Housing Reform and Outcomes
Edited by Joyce Yanyun Man
April 2011, English
Book
City and Regional Planning, Housing, Land and Property Rights, Land Markets, Local Government, Poverty and Inequality, Public Finance, Urbanization
April 2011, English
Book
City and Regional Planning, Housing, Land and Property Rights, Land Markets, Local Government, Poverty and Inequality, Public Finance, Urbanization
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