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Financial Sustainability Index

A Self-Assessment Tool for Financial Sustainability

Shayne Kavanagh, Mark Pisano, Shui Yan Tang, Michael F. McGrath, Doug Linkhart, Monika Hudson, and Erik Colon

May 2017, English

Working Paper

Local Government, Public Finance

May 2017, English

Working Paper

Local Government, Public Finance

Minnesota’s Road to a Legacy Amendment

How We Created and Passed a Constitutional Amendment with Vision, Partnerships, Strategy, Promotion, and Perseverance

David Hartwell

May 2017, English

Working Paper

Environment

May 2017, English

Working Paper

Environment

Relocalizaciones Urbanas y Riesgos Ambientales

Un análisis de los casos de Magaldi y Villa 26 en la cuenca Matanza Riachuelo (Argentina)

Daniel Ryan and Cecilia Larivera, with collaboration from Andrés Nápoli

May 2017, Spanish

Working Paper

Environment, Housing, Urbanization

May 2017, Spanish

Working Paper

Environment, Housing, Urbanization

May 2017, English

Other Publications

Property Tax

Message from the President

Values and the Value of Land

By George W. McCarthy

April 2017, English

At the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, our activity centers on policy-relevant research and training. We are nonpartisan, and our work defaults to objective and evidence-based analysis. We pose questions and test hypotheses that can be answered empirically—through dispassionate inquiry and defensible methodology yielding results supported by data. We do not espouse or advocate for […]

Infrastructure, Land and Property Rights, Public Finance, Value Capture

April 2017, English

At the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, our activity centers on policy-relevant research and training. We are nonpartisan, and our work defaults to objective and evidence-based analysis. We pose questions and test hypotheses that can be answered empirically—through dispassionate inquiry and defensible methodology yielding results supported by data. We do not espouse or advocate for […]

Infrastructure, Land and Property Rights, Public Finance, Value Capture

City Tech

What App Data Can Do for City Planners

By Rob Walker

April 2017, English

Founded in 2009 as a “social network for athletes,” San Francisco–based Strava is today best known for its popular smartphone app, used by millions of people all over the world to track and  share their biking, running, and walking activity. Some users are serious athletes, but plenty simply track commutes or routine exercise excursions as […]

City and Regional Planning, Infrastructure, Technology and Tools

April 2017, English

Founded in 2009 as a “social network for athletes,” San Francisco–based Strava is today best known for its popular smartphone app, used by millions of people all over the world to track and  share their biking, running, and walking activity. Some users are serious athletes, but plenty simply track commutes or routine exercise excursions as […]

City and Regional Planning, Infrastructure, Technology and Tools

Landing Capital

The Capital Absorption Framework for Community Investment

By Loren Berlin

April 2017, English

Since 2015, representatives from various public agencies, foundations, and nonprofit groups in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, and Denver have been jointly participating in “capital absorption” workshops, to forge solutions to local affordable housing shortages through strategies that attract land, capital, and other resources. They represent not just housing, but transit, planning, and […]

Economic Development, Housing, Infrastructure, Land Markets

April 2017, English

Since 2015, representatives from various public agencies, foundations, and nonprofit groups in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, and Denver have been jointly participating in “capital absorption” workshops, to forge solutions to local affordable housing shortages through strategies that attract land, capital, and other resources. They represent not just housing, but transit, planning, and […]

Economic Development, Housing, Infrastructure, Land Markets

No Little Plans

The Evolution of the Comprehensive Plan

By Kathleen McCormick

April 2017, English

Comprehensive plans can inspire their creators to tap their highest and best professional skills, training, and vision—or cause them to question their choice of profession. They often take a couple years to produce and can require extensive community outreach, sometimes with rancorous results—if, for example, the community has strong opposing opinions about a vision for […]

City and Regional Planning, Housing, Infrastructure, Land Use and Zoning

April 2017, English

Comprehensive plans can inspire their creators to tap their highest and best professional skills, training, and vision—or cause them to question their choice of profession. They often take a couple years to produce and can require extensive community outreach, sometimes with rancorous results—if, for example, the community has strong opposing opinions about a vision for […]

City and Regional Planning, Housing, Infrastructure, Land Use and Zoning