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Assessment Limits Create Tax Disparities That Obstruct Homeownership
By Jon Gorey
January 2025, English
Property tax assessment limits ensure that a property’s tax bill doesn’t skyrocket, even if its market value does. But that can also lead to disparities and distortions in local housing markets.
Land Lines Magazine
Housing, Local Government, Property Tax
January 2025, English
Property tax assessment limits ensure that a property’s tax bill doesn’t skyrocket, even if its market value does. But that can also lead to disparities and distortions in local housing markets.
Land Lines Magazine
Housing, Local Government, Property Tax
Where to Build and How to Pay for It: Experts Weigh In
By Jon Gorey
January 2025, English
Land Lines Magazine
City and Regional Planning, Housing, Poverty and Inequality, Technology and Tools
January 2025, English
Land Lines Magazine
City and Regional Planning, Housing, Poverty and Inequality, Technology and Tools
As Wars Rage, Cities Face a Dark New Era of Urban Destruction
January 2025, English
While climate change was top of mind at UN-Habitat’s World Urban Forum 12, a global summit held in Cairo in November, another driver of urban devastation loomed especially large: intensifying military conflict.
Land Lines Magazine
Housing, Infrastructure, Urbanization
January 2025, English
While climate change was top of mind at UN-Habitat’s World Urban Forum 12, a global summit held in Cairo in November, another driver of urban devastation loomed especially large: intensifying military conflict.
Land Lines Magazine
Housing, Infrastructure, Urbanization
Of Potshots and Potholes
Social Media and Urban Infrastructure
By Rob Walker
January 2025, English
A popular citizen-led Instagram account in New Orleans has become part of the city's conversation about infrastructure and planning—could this informal collaboration hold lessons for other urban areas?
Land Lines Magazine
City and Regional Planning, Infrastructure, Technology and Tools
January 2025, English
A popular citizen-led Instagram account in New Orleans has become part of the city's conversation about infrastructure and planning—could this informal collaboration hold lessons for other urban areas?
Land Lines Magazine
City and Regional Planning, Infrastructure, Technology and Tools
Property Taxes and the Great Recession
The Role of Property Tax Limits
Thomas Brosy and Chiara Ferrero
January 2025, English
Working Paper
Land Markets, Local Government, Property Tax, Public Finance
January 2025, English
Working Paper
Land Markets, Local Government, Property Tax, Public Finance
Storm Surge: How Can Cities and Regions Plan for Climate Relocation?
By Jon Gorey
January 2025, English
As the impacts of climate change intensify, making life inconvenient or intolerable in places more prone to drought, wildfire, or flooding, people will increasingly relocate to safer places. How can communities prepare?
Land Lines Magazine
City and Regional Planning, Climate Change, Local Government
January 2025, English
As the impacts of climate change intensify, making life inconvenient or intolerable in places more prone to drought, wildfire, or flooding, people will increasingly relocate to safer places. How can communities prepare?
Land Lines Magazine
City and Regional Planning, Climate Change, Local Government
Marejada: ¿Cómo se pueden preparar las ciudades y las regiones para la reubicación climática?
Por Jon Gorey
January 2025, Spanish
A medida que se intensifican los impactos del cambio climático, lo que hace que la vida se vuelva incómoda o intolerable en lugares propensos a la sequía, los incendios forestales o las inundaciones, las personas se reubicarán en búsqueda de seguridad. ¿Cómo se pueden preparar las comunidades para estos cambios de población?
Land Lines Magazine
City and Regional Planning, Climate Change, Local Government
January 2025, Spanish
A medida que se intensifican los impactos del cambio climático, lo que hace que la vida se vuelva incómoda o intolerable en lugares propensos a la sequía, los incendios forestales o las inundaciones, las personas se reubicarán en búsqueda de seguridad. ¿Cómo se pueden preparar las comunidades para estos cambios de población?
Land Lines Magazine
City and Regional Planning, Climate Change, Local Government
Updates on the State of Statewide Housing Policy: New Insights into Implementation and Results
Semida Munteanu, Jenny Schuetz, and Sydney Zelinka
January 2025, English
With US housing prices continuing to rise, state governments are increasingly seeking to address long-term housing affordability issues by pursuing statewide land use reforms that encourage housing production. A new Lincoln Institute Policy Download shares some of the high-level lessons learned from a recent state housing policy convening and recommends ways to make state policies more effective.
Policy Downloads
Housing
January 2025, English
With US housing prices continuing to rise, state governments are increasingly seeking to address long-term housing affordability issues by pursuing statewide land use reforms that encourage housing production. A new Lincoln Institute Policy Download shares some of the high-level lessons learned from a recent state housing policy convening and recommends ways to make state policies more effective.
Policy Downloads
Housing
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