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Zoning has an honorable history but is being over-used by local communities to block new housing development in ways that exacerbate sprawl and social inequity, according to Zoning Rules! The Economics of Land Use Regulation, a new book published by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. In a...Read more »
The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy announced recipients of the C. Lowell Harriss and David C. Lincoln Fellowships, named as part of a continuing effort to support research on the cutting edge of tax and land policy. The C. Lowell Harriss Fellowships, named in honor of the Columbia University...Read more »
Water is everywhere in the news these days – too much of it as a result of volatile weather leading to flooding and mudslides, or too little of it, very much in evidence in California’s struggles with drought.In the latest in the Lincoln Institute’s spring lecture series last month, Scott Campbell...Read more »
The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy released the annual 50-State Property Tax Comparison Study, a comprehensive analysis of effective property tax rates in each state’s largest city, one rural area in each state, and the District of Columbia. The study, produced in partnership with the Minnesota...Read more »
Representatives of the Detroit Land Bank Authority led a tour this week of homes in the East English Village neighborhood that are being auctioned off and rehabilitated. Officials hope to cut in half the 80,000 structures that were previously estimated to be demolished. The excursion was part of a...Read more »
The ability to visualize data – where residents have health insurance, how close they are to a park or library, or who is going through foreclosure – has become prerequisite in citybuilding these days. It’s almost hard to imagine making policy decisions or launching initiatives without big data as...Read more »
Cities continuing to struggle with finances have been increasingly relying on user charges and fees, according to an analysis of freshly updated data from the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy’s database on local government finance, Fiscally Standardized Cities.User charges and fees - for sewer...Read more »
Preparing for the impacts of climate change, regeneration in Legacy Cities, and the expanding use of scenario planning tools will be among the topics explored by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy at the American Planning Association’s National Planning Conference in Seattle April 17-22, 2015...Read more »
Planning at the state and national level leads to more efficient investments in infrastructure, better resilience in the face of climate change, and greater equity in economic development -- but most land use planning continues to be done at the local level, according to new research published by...Read more »
The growing problem of inequality in cities was the central theme of the annual Journalists Forum on Land and the Built Environment, held last month at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard...Read more »
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