Land Lines January 2008
Planning for Climate Change
Within the next ten years, North American cities will have to respond to what Al Gore has called a “planetary emergency.” The Lincoln Institute intends to play a strategic role in convening experts and helping to align otherwise separate initiatives.
The Property Tax and the Fortunes of Older Industrial Cities
Disparities in property tax revenue due to growing gaps in assessed property values between wealthy, fast-growing communities and older industrial cities can lead to uneven development, where the rich communities become even richer and the poor even poorer.
Housing Inequality in Chinese Cities
Understanding the causes of migrant housing outcomes is important because low housing quality is a genuine problem in need of policy attention; policy prescriptions to address hukou-based housing inequality are not the same as those to remedy other housing issues.
This issue looks at the need for coordinated mitigation efforts to combat climate change in North American cities; inequality caused by widening gaps in assessed property valuation that is associated with land taxation; and hukou-based housing inequality in Chinese cities.