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Construction in downtown Lynn

Should We Allow More Homes to Be Built in Existing Neighborhoods?

By Amy Dain

November 2022, English

  Where should new multifamily housing go? This is a fundamental question facing 175 communities across eastern Massachusetts as they work to implement a new law intended to address the region’s housing shortage. The law requires cities and towns served by Greater Boston’s public transit agency, the MBTA (Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority), to enact zoning […]

City and Regional Planning, Housing, Land Use and Zoning, Local Government

November 2022, English

  Where should new multifamily housing go? This is a fundamental question facing 175 communities across eastern Massachusetts as they work to implement a new law intended to address the region’s housing shortage. The law requires cities and towns served by Greater Boston’s public transit agency, the MBTA (Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority), to enact zoning […]

City and Regional Planning, Housing, Land Use and Zoning, Local Government

Lincoln Institute President and CEO George W. McCarthy and Peking University Vice President Jin Zhang celebrate the renewal of the collaborative agreement that established the Peking University-Lincoln Institute Center for Urban Development and Land Policy. Credit: Courtesy of PKU.

Peking University–Lincoln Institute Center Celebrates 15th Anniversary

By Katharine Wroth

November 2022, English

  This fall marked the 15th anniversary of the Peking University–Lincoln Institute Center for Urban Development and Land Policy (PLC). Established in 2007, the center has become a leading authority on land policy issues in China, including the property tax, municipal finance, land and housing policies, and land conservation. To celebrate this milestone, the PLC held an […]

Climate Change, Land Conservation, Property Tax, Urbanization

November 2022, English

  This fall marked the 15th anniversary of the Peking University–Lincoln Institute Center for Urban Development and Land Policy (PLC). Established in 2007, the center has become a leading authority on land policy issues in China, including the property tax, municipal finance, land and housing policies, and land conservation. To celebrate this milestone, the PLC held an […]

Climate Change, Land Conservation, Property Tax, Urbanization

Urban Growth Boundaries for Watershed Health

Managing the Impacts of Peripheral Land Uses on Water Quantity and Quality

Lance Gloss

November 2022, English

Working Paper

City and Regional Planning, Climate Change, Environment, Land Use and Zoning, Water

November 2022, English

Working Paper

City and Regional Planning, Climate Change, Environment, Land Use and Zoning, Water

Image: Children departing a yellow school bus.

How State Aid and Local Property Taxes Can Together Fund Quality Education for All Students

By Allison Ehrich Bernstein

November 2022, English

  Local property taxes and state aid each have flaws, but a thoughtful combination of these two revenue sources is the most effective recipe for funding a high-quality K–12 education for  all students, according to a new Policy Focus Report published by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.    In Rethinking the Property Tax–School Funding […]

Local Government, Property Tax, Public Finance

November 2022, English

  Local property taxes and state aid each have flaws, but a thoughtful combination of these two revenue sources is the most effective recipe for funding a high-quality K–12 education for  all students, according to a new Policy Focus Report published by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.    In Rethinking the Property Tax–School Funding […]

Local Government, Property Tax, Public Finance

Cover of Rethinking-Property Tax School Funding Dilemma

Rethinking the Property Tax-School Funding Dilemma

By Daphne A. Kenyon, Ph.D., Bethany P. Paquin, and Andrew Reschovsky

November 2022, English

Policy Focus Report

Local Government, Property Tax, Public Finance

November 2022, English

Policy Focus Report

Local Government, Property Tax, Public Finance

Freetown

Mayor’s Desk: Cultivating Climate Resilience in Sierra Leone

By Anthony Flint

November 2022, English

Mayor Yvonne Denise Aki-Sawyerr took office in Freetown, Sierra Leone, in May 2018, after serving as head of the Freetown City Council. A finance professional with over 25 years of experience in the public and private sectors, she had previously been involved with the campaign against blood diamonds and was instrumental in the response to […]

City and Regional Planning, Climate Change, Informal Settlements, Local Government, Poverty and Inequality, Property Tax, Public Finance

November 2022, English

Mayor Yvonne Denise Aki-Sawyerr took office in Freetown, Sierra Leone, in May 2018, after serving as head of the Freetown City Council. A finance professional with over 25 years of experience in the public and private sectors, she had previously been involved with the campaign against blood diamonds and was instrumental in the response to […]

City and Regional Planning, Climate Change, Informal Settlements, Local Government, Poverty and Inequality, Property Tax, Public Finance

Impacto das Restrições Construtivas nos Preços dos Imóveis em São Paulo

Uma análise exploratória para São Paulo, Brasil

Danilo Igliori, Sergio Castelani, Camila Maleronka, Flávia Leite, Rodger Campos, and Mariangela Christie

November 2022, Portuguese

Working Paper

Land Markets, Land Use and Zoning, Value Capture

November 2022, Portuguese

Working Paper

Land Markets, Land Use and Zoning, Value Capture

草根的力量

⼟地保护组织应对⽓候变化的解决⽅案

James N. Levitt and Chandni Navalkha

November 2022, Chinese

Policy Focus Report

Climate Change, Environment, Infrastructure, Land Conservation

November 2022, Chinese

Policy Focus Report

Climate Change, Environment, Infrastructure, Land Conservation