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Reexamining the Property Tax Exemption
H. Woods Bowman
July 2003, English
Government-owned property is exempt from local taxes almost everywhere in the United States, but this situation is based less on logic than on now-outdated historical considerations. Remarkably, there are no comprehensive estimates of the value of these exemptions. For comparison, the value of property tax exemptions for nonprofit institutions (excluding houses of worship) was about […]
Poverty and Inequality, Property Tax, Public Finance, Valuation
July 2003, English
Government-owned property is exempt from local taxes almost everywhere in the United States, but this situation is based less on logic than on now-outdated historical considerations. Remarkably, there are no comprehensive estimates of the value of these exemptions. For comparison, the value of property tax exemptions for nonprofit institutions (excluding houses of worship) was about […]
Poverty and Inequality, Property Tax, Public Finance, Valuation
Planning for Growth in Western Cities
Armando Carbonell and Lisa Cloutier
July 2003, English
As part of the American Planning Association (APA) 2003 national conference held in Denver in March, the Lincoln Institute assembled a group of planning directors from large and small western cities to discuss a set of topics they had previously identified as being important, including infill housing, maintaining the core vs. sprawling at the edge, […]
City and Regional Planning, Economic Development, Housing, Land Use and Zoning
July 2003, English
As part of the American Planning Association (APA) 2003 national conference held in Denver in March, the Lincoln Institute assembled a group of planning directors from large and small western cities to discuss a set of topics they had previously identified as being important, including infill housing, maintaining the core vs. sprawling at the edge, […]
City and Regional Planning, Economic Development, Housing, Land Use and Zoning
El debate sobre la recuperación de plusvalías en América Latina
Martim O. Smolka and Fernanda Furtado
July 2003, Spanish
Una versión más actualizada de este artículo está disponible como parte del capítulo 4 del libro Perspectivas urbanas: Temas críticos en políticas de suelo de América Latina. La recuperación de plusvalías es un concepto que tiene mayor aceptación día a día y cuyo propósito es recuperar, parcial o totalmente, para el beneficio público, los incrementos […]
Land and Property Rights, Land Markets, Land Value Taxation, Poverty and Inequality
July 2003, Spanish
Una versión más actualizada de este artículo está disponible como parte del capítulo 4 del libro Perspectivas urbanas: Temas críticos en políticas de suelo de América Latina. La recuperación de plusvalías es un concepto que tiene mayor aceptación día a día y cuyo propósito es recuperar, parcial o totalmente, para el beneficio público, los incrementos […]
Land and Property Rights, Land Markets, Land Value Taxation, Poverty and Inequality
The Value Capture Debate in Latin America
Martim O. Smolka and Fernanda Furtado
July 2003, English
Value capture is an increasingly popular concept that seeks to capture for public benefit all or part of the increments in land value resulting from community, rather than private, investments and actions. Yet, based on the Lincoln Institute’s experience in sponsoring many educational and research programs dealing with value capture policies in Latin America, it […]
Land and Property Rights, Land Markets, Land Value Taxation, Poverty and Inequality
July 2003, English
Value capture is an increasingly popular concept that seeks to capture for public benefit all or part of the increments in land value resulting from community, rather than private, investments and actions. Yet, based on the Lincoln Institute’s experience in sponsoring many educational and research programs dealing with value capture policies in Latin America, it […]
Land and Property Rights, Land Markets, Land Value Taxation, Poverty and Inequality
Las plusvalías en beneficio de los pobres
El proyecto Usme en Colombia
Maria Mercedes Maldonado Copello and Martim O. Smolka
July 2003, Spanish
Una versión más actualizada de este artículo está disponible como parte del capítulo 4 del libro Perspectivas urbanas: Temas críticos en políticas de suelo de América Latina. Las políticas públicas y acciones urbanísticas relacionadas con la vivienda de interés social en Colombia, como en otros países latinoamericanos, se han concentrado en los programas de regularización […]
Housing, Informal Settlements, Land and Property Rights, Land Markets, Urbanization
July 2003, Spanish
Una versión más actualizada de este artículo está disponible como parte del capítulo 4 del libro Perspectivas urbanas: Temas críticos en políticas de suelo de América Latina. Las políticas públicas y acciones urbanísticas relacionadas con la vivienda de interés social en Colombia, como en otros países latinoamericanos, se han concentrado en los programas de regularización […]
Housing, Informal Settlements, Land and Property Rights, Land Markets, Urbanization
Using Value Capture to Benefit the Poor
The Usme Project in Colombia
María Mercedes Maldonado Copello and Martim O. Smolka
July 2003, English
Public policies and actions regarding social housing in Colombia, as in other Latin American countries, have concentrated on regularization and upgrading programs, which in many cases are linked to the need for infrastructure funding. These programs also are seen as the only palliative instrument for addressing an apparently insoluble problem—illegal (pirate) urban development—although they have […]
Housing, Informal Settlements, Land and Property Rights, Land Markets, Urbanization
July 2003, English
Public policies and actions regarding social housing in Colombia, as in other Latin American countries, have concentrated on regularization and upgrading programs, which in many cases are linked to the need for infrastructure funding. These programs also are seen as the only palliative instrument for addressing an apparently insoluble problem—illegal (pirate) urban development—although they have […]
Housing, Informal Settlements, Land and Property Rights, Land Markets, Urbanization
La vista desde el sector privado de Colombia
July 2003, Spanish
Una versión más actualizada de este artículo está disponible como parte del capítulo 4 del libro Perspectivas urbanas: Temas críticos en políticas de suelo de América Latina. Entre 1970 y 1989 se sometieron 17 proyectos de reforma urbana progresista al Congreso de Colombia, pero ninguno fue aprobado debido a la oposición del partido conservador apoyado […]
Land and Property Rights, Urbanization
July 2003, Spanish
Una versión más actualizada de este artículo está disponible como parte del capítulo 4 del libro Perspectivas urbanas: Temas críticos en políticas de suelo de América Latina. Entre 1970 y 1989 se sometieron 17 proyectos de reforma urbana progresista al Congreso de Colombia, pero ninguno fue aprobado debido a la oposición del partido conservador apoyado […]
Land and Property Rights, Urbanization
The View from Colombia’s Private Sector
July 2003, English
Between 1970 and 1989, 17 progressive urban reform projects were submitted to the Colombian Congress, but all failed due to opposition from the conservative party supported by the influential private sector including the construction industry and real estate developers. In 1989, after three years of parliamentary debates, Law 9a (for urban reform) was approved, despite […]
Land and Property Rights, Urbanization
July 2003, English
Between 1970 and 1989, 17 progressive urban reform projects were submitted to the Colombian Congress, but all failed due to opposition from the conservative party supported by the influential private sector including the construction industry and real estate developers. In 1989, after three years of parliamentary debates, Law 9a (for urban reform) was approved, despite […]
Land and Property Rights, Urbanization
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