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Integrating Land and Water
Tools, Practices, Processes, and Evaluation CriteriaWorking PapersFebruary 2021Erin RuglandLand and water are highly connected resources yet are managed and regulated by different entities. Land use planners and water managers may be interested in better connecting land and water but lack...
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Making the Comeback
Reversing the Downward Trajectory of African American Middle Neighborhoods in Legacy CitiesWorking PapersFebruary 2021This working paper was developed jointly by Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and Center for Community Progress. In this paper I examine trends in Black middle neighborhoods in six legacy cities...
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Status of a New Value Capture Tool in Mexico City
El Sistema de Actuación por CooperaciónWorking PapersJanuary 2021David LeipzigerGrowing cities in Latin America are expanding their urban footprints at the expense of central cores. The result strains public resources, and local governments increasingly pursue strategies to...
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Split-Rate Taxation
Impacts on Tax BaseWorking PapersJanuary 2021Zhou Yang and Zackary HawleyMunicipalities debating land value taxation or split-rate taxation need empirical evidence to understand how the transition of property tax regimes will affect their tax base. Using a valuable data...
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Assessment of Property Tax Reductions on Tax Delinquency, Tax Foreclosure, and Home Ownership
Working PapersJanuary 2021Fernanda Alfaro, Dusan Paredes, and Mark SkidmoreIn this report, we provide an evaluation of the impacts in Detroit of reductions in residential effective tax rates on tax delinquency, property tax foreclosure, and homeownership. The decline in...
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Split-Rate Taxation and Business Establishment Location
Evidence from the Pennsylvania ExperienceWorking PapersJanuary 2021Andrew HansonThis paper estimates the relationship between business establishment location and split-rate property taxation. Using variation in split-rate adoption and intensity by municipalities across...
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An Examination of Sales Ratio Data and Sources Incorporated into the 50-State Property Tax Comparison Study
Working PapersDecember 2020Bob DeBoerThe 50-State Property Tax Comparison Study, jointly produced by the Minnesota Center for Fiscal Excellence (MCFE) and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, uses sales ratios to more accurately...
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Strategic Interaction in Urban Infrastructure Finance
A Spatial Panel Econometric Analysis of Chinese Prefecture-Level CitiesWorking PapersOctober 2020Can Chen, Kenneth A. Kriz, and Shuanglin LinThis research represents one of the first attempts to empirically examine strategic interaction in urban infrastructure expenditures on capital construction and maintenance in China. Drawing upon the...
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How States Provide Cities with General Revenue
An Analysis of Unrestricted State AidWorking PapersSeptember 2020Amanda Kass, Michael Pagano, and Farhad Kaab OmeyrMunicipal governments in the United States generate revenues from their own sources (their authority to charge for services and collect taxes); other governments (intergovernmental revenue); and, by...
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Greenventory 2.0
Sustainability Lessons from Small and Midsize Legacy CitiesWorking PapersSeptember 2020Joseph Schilling and Gabriella VelascoThis working paper builds the policy case for why sustainability presents small-to-midsize legacy cities with a promising pathway for their regeneration. Its conceptual foundation rests at the...
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