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1. Developing a Quantitative Spatial Economic Model to Evaluate Urban Water Conservation Policies in Denver

   Documentos de Trabalho
   Abril 2023
   Juan Carlos G. Lopez

   This paper develops a quantitative spatial model for the city of Denver to consider policy proposals to reduce urban water demand using data on land use and water demand by households and business...

2. New Hampshire: Heavy Property Tax Reliance and Longstanding School Finance Litigation

   Documentos de Trabalho
   Abril 2023
   Semida Munteanu, Bethany Paquin, and Sydney Zelinka

   New Hampshire does not levy a broad-based sales or individual income tax and therefore is the state most reliant on property taxes. In 1999, New Hampshire dramatically changed its system of school...

3. How Landscape Conservation Partnerships Are Working to Address Climate Change

   Documentos de Trabalho
   Abril 2023
   Ernest Cook, Katherine Lyons, Rashail Deminck, Lucia Portman, and Molly McDevitt 

   Land conservation – defined as land protection, restoration and stewardship – can be used to address climate change both by mitigating greenhouse gas emissions and by helping human and...

4. Assessing the Feasibility of Comprehensively Evaluating Duty to Serve’s Impacts

   Documentos de Trabalho
   Março 2023
   Esther Choi, Emma Donnelly, Yasmin Givens, Riley Meve, and Serena Shedore

   Preserving affordable housing, reducing inequality in homeownership, and reaching underserved populations in the U.S. are significant priorities for the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) and the...

5. China’s Shifting Demographic Geography

   Insights from the 2020 Census
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Fevereiro 2023
   Douglas Webster, Jianming Cai, Larissa Muller, and Feifei Zhang

   This monograph identifies key changes (trends, abrupt changes) in the 21st Century spatial distribution of the Chinese population, based primarily on absolute and relative changes between the 2010 (...

6. Getting Zoning for Manufactured Housing Right

   Documentos de Trabalho
   Fevereiro 2023
   Daniel R. Mandelker

   This working paper discusses zoning barriers to manufactured housing. Zoning is a poorly constructed system that allows local governments to restrict manufactured housing. Zoning restrictions create...

7. Building Collaboration among Community Land Trusts Providing Affordable Housing and Conservation Land Trusts Protecting Land for Ecological Value

   Documentos de Trabalho
   Janeiro 2023
   Katie Michels and David A. Hindin

   The community land trust and conservation land trust movements are each advancing longterm, beneficial uses of land for public needs. Community land trusts primarily focus on obtaining land for...

8. Urban Planning and Land Value Capture

   Case Study of Belo Horizonte, Brazil
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Janeiro 2023
   Maria Fernandes Caldas

   This case study reflects on the history and implementation of land value capture policies in the Brazilian city of Belo Horizonte, especially the use of the Outorga Onerosa do Direito de Construir (...

9. A Series of Articles about the MBTA Communities Zoning Law

   Documentos de Trabalho
   Dezembro 2022
   Amy Dain

   In 2021, the Massachusetts state legislature adopted the MBTA Communities zoning law requiring municipalities served by Greater Boston’s public transit agency, the MBTA, (with the exception of...

10. Infrastructure Policy Perspectives

    Documentos de Trabalho
    Dezembro 2022
    José Gómez-Ibáñez and Zhi Liu

    The Lincoln Institute of land Policy published an edited book “Infrastructure Economics and Policy: International Perspectives” in early 2022. This paper summarizes the key messages of...