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Land Lines, the quarterly magazine of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, has been redesigned to include new features and articles written by a broader range of contributors. “As we elevate the dialogue about the importance of land policy in the built and natural environments, the new and...Read more »
The future prospects for cities worldwide has a foundation in something that doesn't always get much talked about: municipal fiscal health. That was the message delivered by Lincoln Institute President George W. McCarthy in an appearance at the USC Price School of Public Policy earlier this...Read more »
States are obligated to generate income from state trust lands, through mining, grazing, agriculture, or logging, but a new report published by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy shows how conservation can be an equally robust revenue source. State trust land management agencies are poised to...Read more »
The Peking University--Lincoln Institute Center for Urban Development and Land Policy and the Hang Lung Center for Real Estate at Tsinghua University recently launched a new initiative to better track the price of housing in rapidly urbanizing China. The China Quality-Controlled Urban Housing Price...Read more »
State legislators from each of the New England states attended the annual Economic Perspectives on State and Local Taxes seminar at the Lincoln Institute last month, a convening organized in partnership with the New England Public Policy Center of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Tax and fiscal...Read more »
Five winning essays about innovations in land conservation, from a competition run by the Lincoln Institute in partnership with GlobalPost and The Groundtruth Project, have been smartly packaged on The Huffington Post. The new ideas in sustainability and finance include the restoration of the...Read more »
The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy has joined the World Urban Campaign, the advocacy and partnership platform for cities in the twenty first century, as an associate partner. The engagement on such topics as value capture, informal settlement, municipal fiscal health, urban infrastructure, and...Read more »
Tax breaks, widely used by local governments to attract new business investment, reduce property taxes by millions of dollars, but there is often very little—if any—public disclosure of the terms of these incentive packages. That could soon change in a major way, if a proposal by the Governmental...Read more »
Former US Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, a leading advocate for infrastructure investment as co-chair of Building America's Future, and Mimi Brown, until last year the Commissioner of Rating and Valuation for the Government of Hong Kong, have joined the Board of Directors for the...Read more »
From Ferguson to Medellin, 2014 has been a year of tumult and promise for cities. Global urbanization continued to pose a challenge for making life better for the poor; Legacy Cities including St. Louis and of course Detroit plotted regeneration; value capture, shared equity housing, and the land...Read more »
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