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1. Rethinking the Property Tax-School Funding Dilemma

   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Noviembre 2022
   By Daphne A. Kenyon, Ph.D., Bethany P. Paquin, and Andrew Reschovsky

   This report focuses on the roles of the local property tax and state aid in the funding of public education and analyzes their strengths and weaknesses. A key theme is the property tax–school...

2. Land Value Capture in the United States

   Funding Infrastructure and Local Government Services
   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Septiembre 2022
   By Gerald Korngold

   Land value capture (LVC) is based on a simple core premise: public action should generate public benefit.

3. Contribución de mejoras en América Latina

   Experiencias, desafíos y oportunidades
   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Julio 2020
   Óscar Armando Borrero Ochoa y Julieth Katterine Rojas Ruiz

   Uno de los problemas principales de los municipios latinoamericanos es la falta de recursos para financiar obras públicas, especialmente en cuestiones de movilidad y transporte masivo. Aqu...

4. Improving Tax Increment Financing (TIF) for Economic Development

   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Septiembre 2018
   David Merriman

   “This report will be the ‘go-to’ resource for public policy practitioners, municipal officials, and worldwide local development officers for two reasons. First, it is written by a...

5. Detroit and the Property Tax

   Strategies to Improve Equity and Enhance Revenue
   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Noviembre 2015
   Gary Sands and Mark Skidmore

   This report outlines the problems underlying the erosion of Detroit's property tax base—a factor that contributed to the city's bankruptcy in 2013. It offers recommendations for reform...

6. Use-Value Assessment of Rural Lands

   Time for Reform?
   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Noviembre 2015
   John E. Anderson and Richard W. England

   Use-value assessment (UVA) is the practice of valuing rural land according to its current use rather than its market value to reduce property taxes for rural land owners in the United States. This...

7. Mejoramiento del desempeño del impuesto sobre la propiedad en América Latina

   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Octubre 2015
   Claudia M. De Cesare

   This report, Mejoramiento del desempeño del impuesto sobre la propiedad en América Latina (Improving the Performance of the Property Tax in Latin America), presents a comprehensive...

8. Recuperação de Mais-Valias Fundiárias na América Latina

   Políticas e Instrumentos para o Desenvolvimento Urbano
   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Septiembre 2014
   Martim O. Smolka

   Urbanization in Latin America is associated with strong pressure for the supply of serviced land, resulting in significant changes in land values that are distributed unequally among landowners and...

9. Governing and Financing Cities in the Developing World

   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Mayo 2014
   Roy W. Bahl and Johannes F. Linn

   The economic activity that drives growth in developing countries is heavily concentrated in urban areas. Big cities generate the most dynamic economic development, the strongest links to the global...

10. Implementación de la recuperación de plusvalías en América Latina

    Políticas e instrumentos para el desarrollo urbano
    Enfoques en políticas de suelo
    Febrero 2014
    Martim O. Smolka

    Urbanization in Latin America is associated with strong pressure for the supply of serviced land, resulting in significant changes in land values that are distributed unequally among landowners and...