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1. Confronting the Real Barriers to Housing Affordability

   Using Research to Assemble Durable Coalitions and Expand Political Capacity
   Documentos de trabajo
   Diciembre 2021
   Benjamin Teresa, Kathryn Howell, and Leah Demarest

   The paper begins from the perspective that barriers to affordable housing are less about having good ideas but rather about how to enact policy changes. It focuses on the relationship between housing...

2. Effects of Reducing the Role of the Local Property Tax in Funding K-12 Education

   Documentos de trabajo
   Noviembre 2021
   Daphne Kenyon and Semida Munteanu

   Between 1989 and 2018, while national reliance on local property taxation to fund K-12 education remained quite stable, 24 states increased reliance on the local property tax, while 25 states...

3. Property Tax Relief for Homeowners

   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Noviembre 2021
   Adam H. Langley and Joan Youngman

   “This is a must-read guide for those thinking about possible reform and ways to ensure the property tax remains an equitable source of local support.” — Kim Rueben, Sol Price Fellow...

4. A Reformer’s Guidebook to Zoning’s Knots

   Approval Processes for Multi-Family Housing in Greater Boston
   Documentos de trabajo
   Octubre 2021
   Amy Dain

   Local permitting of residential construction in Boston’s suburbs has evolved, along a centurylong trend line, to be more flexible, political, complex, unpredictable, and ad hoc. The route to...

5. Property Taxes

   What Everybody Needs to Know
   Documentos de trabajo
   Septiembre 2021
   Ronald C. Fisher

   The property tax is the largest single source of revenue under the control of state or local governments in the United States. Property taxes provide a fundamental fiscal foundation for all types of...

6. The Evolution of a Land Trust

   Placing Social Transformation at the Center of the Conservation Effort
   Documentos de trabajo
   Septiembre 2021
   Fernando Lloveras San Miguel

   This narrative examines the evolution of a land trust, Para la Naturaleza (PLN) in Puerto Rico, as it navigated a vast array of challenges. These challenges led Para la Naturaleza to transform itself...

7. Mandating Access to Affordable Housing, City by City

   Is France’s Fair-Share SRU Law a Model for U.S. Metropolitan Areas?
   Documentos de trabajo
   Septiembre 2021
   Yonah Freemark

   In 2000, France’s legislature passed the Loi relative à la Solidarité et au renouvellement urbains (SRU) law, a housing affordability requirement for many municipalities across...

8. Climate and Housing Crisis

   A Research Agenda for Urban Communities
   Documentos de trabajo
   Agosto 2021
   Michael P. Johnson, Patricio Belloy, Heather MacLean, and Sajani Kandel

   Housing unaffordability and climate change adversely affect the lives of Boston area residents. These crises are amplified by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and are especially salient for low- and...

9. Climate Change Adaptation and Property Values

   A Survey of the Literature
   Documentos de trabajo
   Agosto 2021
   Katherine A. Kiel

   This paper surveys the current literature of the impact of climate change adaptation on residential property values. Several categories of adaptation are considered including ecosystem management,...

10. Scenario Planning in Small and Mid-Size Legacy Cities

    Framework and Tool Adaptations in Youngstown, Ohio
    Documentos de trabajo
    Agosto 2021
    Thomas Hilde and Hunter Morrison

    This paper examines how scenario planning frameworks and tools—largely designed for contexts of regional growth—can be adapted for land use and development planning in small and mid-size...