Locally administered pensions have $574 billion in unfunded liabilities

BenefitsPro

August 03, 2012 09:00

A new report by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy tries to shine a light on local government pension plans and how they fared during the Great Rece...

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A planet of cities

Citiwire

July 30, 2012 09:00

In 1922, the architect Le Corbusier launched the first of several visions for modern city-building — the Ville Contempo...

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Watchdog report: What should colleges contribute for services?

Rochester Democrat and Chronicle

July 30, 2012 09:00

For Henrietta firefighters, calls to Rochester Institute of Technology are nothing out of the ordinary: 13 percent of the fire district’s calls ...

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Redevelopment in Boston: Downtown Crossing and the Seaport

WGBH Boston Public Radio

July 27, 2012 09:00

There are two parts of Boston that are undergoing major changes. We have Downtown Crossing with its huge hole in the ground where Filene’s used ...

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Mall gets tax breaks; how much must it buy locally?

Newsday

July 24, 2012 09:00

A dispute between a local concrete manufacturer and a shopping mall shows how difficult it can be to push businesses that receive government aid for b...

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Writing the rules for smart cities

The Atlantic Cities

July 23, 2012 09:00

BARCELONA – City Councilor Manel Sanroma likes to take visitors to the oldest part of this Mediterranean port city for a local tradition called ...

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The struggle for urban space

Vitruvius

July 10, 2012 09:00

On July 9, 2012, , Paulo Henrique Sandroni, professor Foundation Getúlio Vargasin Sao Paulo and researcher at the Lincoln Institute of Land Pol...

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Small, green, and good

Boston Review

July 09, 2012 09:00

Growing up in a small town, I regularly took bus trips with my mom and little sister into “the city”: Syracuse. Like most middle-class fam...

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Tax breaks for big business is bad policy

Planetizen

July 05, 2012 09:00

So says the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, releasing a new report that says this all-too-common strategy rarely pays off. Report authors Daphn...

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Housing bubbles and homeownership returns

FRBSF Economic Letter

July 05, 2012 09:00

In the aftermath of the global financial crisis and the Great Recession, research has sought to understand the behavior of house prices. A feature of ...

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3D cadastre in the federal countries of Latin America

International Federation of Surveyors

July 05, 2012 09:00

Latin America is a vast region of the world, occupying approximately 15% of the Earth's land surface. The 20 countries that compose it have around 400...

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Memphis to explore asking tax-exempt entities to make payments

The Commercial Appeal

July 05, 2012 09:00

The Memphis City Council voted to consider whether nonprofit and tax-exempt organizations should be asked to make voluntary payments in lieu of tax. A...

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Report: property tax breaks to lure businesses largely ineffective

The Commercial Record

June 29, 2012 09:00

There is little evidence that property tax incentives to lure businesses to locate in cities and towns have much of an effect, either in the decision-...

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City aims to block properties' tax-saving maneuver in court

Iowa City Press-Citizen

June 28, 2012 09:00

The city of Iowa City is taking one of its own boards to court to contest the reclassification of a number of apartment properties to cooperatives, a ...

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The secret conservative war on zoning

The Atlantic Cities

June 27, 2012 09:00

The American Legislative Exchange Council, the corporate lobbying group known for pushing the "Stand Your Ground” gun legislation that factored ...

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Tax exemptions - breaks for some, burdens for others

Yakima Herald-Republic

June 27, 2012 09:00

Every year, school districts around Yakima County struggle with finances, whether it's trouble winning voter-approved levies for maintenance and opera...

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The importance of the property tax

El Sol de Mexico

June 27, 2012 09:00

En lo personal soy partidario de fortalecer las facultades tributarias de las entidades federativas y de los municipios, regresando a las primeras pot...

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Property tax giveaways a popular, and flawed, business lure

The Boston Globe

June 26, 2012 09:00

IN TRYING TO maintain momentum in the Innovation District in the South Boston Waterfront, Boston has dangled millions of dollars in tax breaks in fron...

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A Housing Market Without Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

The Heritage Foundation

June 18, 2012 09:00

For decades, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac followed securitization policies that enabled Americans to make a low down payment when they purchased a house...

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Moving forward in Latin America

Habitation for the Planet

June 12, 2012 09:00

In terms of progress being made across the planet, Latin America is one region that can be commended from a certain perspective for its efforts to bro...

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