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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

Two rows of tan and gray townhomes with rooftop solar panels. The rows are separated by a paved road flanked by wide,, white sidewalks.

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

By Anthony Flint

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

A hand-painted stop sign on a street corner in New Orleans.

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

A line of cars drives past a blue sign that reads evacuation route.

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

A line of cars drives past a blue sign that reads evacuation route.

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

State house dome of a Unites States city with a body of water in the background.

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