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An architect's rendering shows a mixed-use condo development along Los Angeles' Metro Expo/Vermont rail line.

Landing Capital

Helping Underinvested Communities to Absorb Resources

By Loren Berlin

January 2018, English

By joining forces through “capital absorption workshops,” stakeholders in Denver, San Francisco, and Los Angeles are forging strategies to attract land, capital, and other resources to ease local affordable housing shortages.

City and Regional Planning, Economic Development, Housing, Public Finance

January 2018, English

By joining forces through “capital absorption workshops,” stakeholders in Denver, San Francisco, and Los Angeles are forging strategies to attract land, capital, and other resources to ease local affordable housing shortages.

City and Regional Planning, Economic Development, Housing, Public Finance

The latest manufactured homes

From Stigma to Housing Fix

The Evolution of Manufactured Homes

By Loren Berlin

January 2018, English

Today’s factory-built abodes are comfortable and attractive, energy-efficient, and less than half the price of site-built houses. They’re also permanently affordable when owners form cooperatives to buy the land around them.

Housing, Land Markets, Land Use and Zoning, Public Finance

January 2018, English

Today’s factory-built abodes are comfortable and attractive, energy-efficient, and less than half the price of site-built houses. They’re also permanently affordable when owners form cooperatives to buy the land around them.

Housing, Land Markets, Land Use and Zoning, Public Finance

Map of San Francisco with areas with low percentages of affordable housing indicated in light green.

Place Database

San Francisco’s Affordable Housing Shortage

By Jenna DeAngelo

January 2018, English

In most of San Francisco, indicated by the lightest green areas of the map, only 8.32 percent or less of homes in 2015 were likely to be affordable for a 4-person family earning $81,500, or 80 percent of the Area Median Income (AMI). View the PDF version of this map for more detail and a […]

City and Regional Planning, Housing, Land Markets

January 2018, English

In most of San Francisco, indicated by the lightest green areas of the map, only 8.32 percent or less of homes in 2015 were likely to be affordable for a 4-person family earning $81,500, or 80 percent of the Area Median Income (AMI). View the PDF version of this map for more detail and a […]

City and Regional Planning, Housing, Land Markets

Improving the Property Tax by Expanding Options for Monthly Payments

Adam H. Langley

January 2018, English

Working Paper

Property Tax, Public Finance

January 2018, English

Working Paper

Property Tax, Public Finance

Asymmetry in Municipal Government Responses in Growing vs. Shrinking Counties with Focus on Capital Spending

Biswa Das and Mark Skidmore 

November 2017, English

Working Paper

Local Government

November 2017, English

Working Paper

Local Government

An Evaluation Framework for the Use of Scenarios in Urban Planning

Robert Goodspeed

November 2017, English

Working Paper

City and Regional Planning

November 2017, English

Working Paper

City and Regional Planning

A panda cub sits among the branches of a eucalyptus tree

Ciudades esponja y el hábitat del panda

La incursión de The Nature Conservancy en China

Por James N. Levitt y Emily Myron

October 2017, Spanish

Paradójicamente, China surge como un líder global innovador en iniciativas ecológicas, cuando acaba de superar a Estados Unidos como fuente principal de emisiones de dióxido de carbono en todo el mundo (Global Carbon Atlas, 2016). La agencia oficial de noticias Xinhua destaca: “Luego de la llegada del esmog y los suelos contaminados gracias a varias […]

Climate Change, Environment, Land Conservation, Urbanization

October 2017, Spanish

Paradójicamente, China surge como un líder global innovador en iniciativas ecológicas, cuando acaba de superar a Estados Unidos como fuente principal de emisiones de dióxido de carbono en todo el mundo (Global Carbon Atlas, 2016). La agencia oficial de noticias Xinhua destaca: “Luego de la llegada del esmog y los suelos contaminados gracias a varias […]

Climate Change, Environment, Land Conservation, Urbanization

A drone flies over Buenos Aires

La revolución de los drones

Los geodatos generados mediante UAV mejoran las políticas de suelo desde América Latina hasta China

Por John Wihbey

October 2017, Spanish

Los drones revolucionan la recolección de datos y el mapeo, y dan lugar a grandes cambios y nuevas oportunidades en los campos de la gestión de suelo, políticas y defensa.  Los vehículos aéreos no tripulados (UAV) empezaron a usarse de forma generalizada en todo el mundo hace una década aproximadamente, cuando su costo cayó rápidamente […]

City and Regional Planning, Land Use and Zoning, Technology and Tools, Valuation

October 2017, Spanish

Los drones revolucionan la recolección de datos y el mapeo, y dan lugar a grandes cambios y nuevas oportunidades en los campos de la gestión de suelo, políticas y defensa.  Los vehículos aéreos no tripulados (UAV) empezaron a usarse de forma generalizada en todo el mundo hace una década aproximadamente, cuando su costo cayó rápidamente […]

City and Regional Planning, Land Use and Zoning, Technology and Tools, Valuation