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1. Do Inclusionary Housing Policies Promote Housing Affordability?

   Evidence from the Palmer Decision in California
   Documentos de trabajo
   Diciembre 2015
   Ann Hollingshead

   Many cities have responded to rising affordability challenges with inclusionary housing policies, where a municipality requires or incentivizes a developer building a new development to contribute...

2. Integrating Exploratory Scenario Planning into a Municipal General Plan Update

   Documentos de trabajo
   Diciembre 2015
   Joe Marlow, Hannah Oliver, Ray Quay, and Ralph Marra

   Exploratory scenario planning (XSP) is a creative, collaborative planning method that can be used within a community’s traditional planning processes to develop and implement plans, strategies...

3. Measuring Urban Attitudes Using Twitter

   An Exploratory Study
   Documentos de trabajo
   Diciembre 2015
   Justin B. Hollander and Henry Renski

   The goal of this working paper is to introduce a new breed of powerful software tools and social media data that can be used to study the attitudes of people in urban places. In particular, the paper...

4. Where Do Property Rights Matter More?

   Explaining the Variation in Demand for Property Titles Across Cities in Mexico
   Documentos de trabajo
   Diciembre 2015
   Paavo Monkkonen

   Existing empirical research has established that stronger legal claims to property in urban areas have significant market value, but previous studies examine this question in a single city or market...

5. What Drives Neighborhood Trajectories in Legacy Cities?

   Understanding the Dynamics of Change
   Documentos de trabajo
   Diciembre 2015
   Alan Mallach

   This paper explores the dynamics of neighborhood change in legacy cities in the United States through a review of salient research and an analysis of neighborhood characteristics and trends in a...

6. Detroit and the Property Tax

   Strategies to Improve Equity and Enhance Revenue
   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Noviembre 2015
   Gary Sands and Mark Skidmore

   This report outlines the problems underlying the erosion of Detroit's property tax base—a factor that contributed to the city's bankruptcy in 2013. It offers recommendations for reform...

7. The Long-Run Effects of Subsidized Housing on Travel Behavior

   Evidence from China’s Housing Reform
   Documentos de trabajo
   Noviembre 2015
   Joshua Linn, Zhongmin Wang, and Lunyu Xie

   Many cities in developing countries are experiencing rapid urbanization along with deteriorating traffic congestion and air quality. A long-term approach to alleviating traffic congestion is to...

8. Use-Value Assessment of Rural Lands

   Time for Reform?
   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Noviembre 2015
   John E. Anderson and Richard W. England

   Use-value assessment (UVA) is the practice of valuing rural land according to its current use rather than its market value to reduce property taxes for rural land owners in the United States. This...

9. Annotated Bibliography on Land Value Taxation and Value Capture 2007–2013

   Documentos de trabajo
   Noviembre 2015
   Jeffrey I. Chapman

   This annotated bibliography comprises over 490 citations to literature on land value taxation and value capture techniques published between 2007 and 2013. This working paper builds on previous work...

10. Aumento de resiliencia al cambio climático en asentamientos informales de dos ciudades latinoamericanas

    Condega y Cartagena
    Documentos de trabajo
    Noviembre 2015
    Mona Serageldin, Alfredo Stein, Alejandra Mortarini, Carolina Morgan, Warren Hagist, Sheelah Gobar, and Luis Sevilla Fajardo

    El marco conceptual de esta investigación se basa en la documentación sobre los efectos del cambio climático y estrategias de adaptación publicada por el Panel...