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Property Tax
Fifty-State Study Details Growing Tax Breaks for Longtime Homeowners
June 2019, English
In states with property tax assessment limits, tax breaks for longtime homeowners are growing at the expense of new homeowners, a new study shows.
June 2019, English
In states with property tax assessment limits, tax breaks for longtime homeowners are growing at the expense of new homeowners, a new study shows.
June 2019, English
Housing Affordability
Regional Strategies to Address the Bay Area Affordability Crisis
June 2019, English
Suburban Concord, California, which struggles with empty office space, is determining how to redevelop a 5,000-acre naval base next to a Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) station. A few train stops away, San Francisco faces a growing housing deficit after adding 165,000 new jobs from 2010 to 2015. Though each of the Bay […]
June 2019, English
Suburban Concord, California, which struggles with empty office space, is determining how to redevelop a 5,000-acre naval base next to a Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) station. A few train stops away, San Francisco faces a growing housing deficit after adding 165,000 new jobs from 2010 to 2015. Though each of the Bay […]
Land Matters Podcast
Episode 2: Yes in My Backyard
June 2019, English
A movement has gained momentum under the banner of YIMBY: Yes in My Backyard, but it faces opposition from longtime homeowners. Is there a path forward to create new housing in high-cost cities?
June 2019, English
A movement has gained momentum under the banner of YIMBY: Yes in My Backyard, but it faces opposition from longtime homeowners. Is there a path forward to create new housing in high-cost cities?
Land Conversion and Misallocation Across Cities in China
June 2019, English
June 2019, English
Legacy Cities
Three Rust Belt Cities Share Strategies for Equitable Revitalization
May 2019, English
F or an afternoon, in 2015, residents temporarily transformed an aging business district in Akron, Ohio’s North Hill neighborhood. Local business owners and leaders worked with the Better Block Foundation to demonstrate what more was possible for the intersection of North Main Street and Cuyahoga Falls Avenue. Pop-up businesses, parklets, bike lanes, and art […]
May 2019, English
F or an afternoon, in 2015, residents temporarily transformed an aging business district in Akron, Ohio’s North Hill neighborhood. Local business owners and leaders worked with the Better Block Foundation to demonstrate what more was possible for the intersection of North Main Street and Cuyahoga Falls Avenue. Pop-up businesses, parklets, bike lanes, and art […]
A New Podcast
Let's Talk TIF
May 2019, English
Tax increment financing is one of the most widely used—and least understood—public finance mechanisms in the U.S. today. David Merriman, one of the foremost experts on TIF, talks about what communities and states can do to avoid the pitfalls.
May 2019, English
Tax increment financing is one of the most widely used—and least understood—public finance mechanisms in the U.S. today. David Merriman, one of the foremost experts on TIF, talks about what communities and states can do to avoid the pitfalls.
The Role of Micro-Entrepreneurship in Emerging Land Markets
A Case Study of Rental Markets in Havana, Cuba
May 2019, English
May 2019, English
