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1. Community Land Trusts and Housing Affordability

   Ponencias
   Mayo 2007
   Steven C. Bourassa

   The U.S. government housing programs for assisting low-income families are administered largely at the state and local levels, and they include the Section 8 (Housing Choice Voucher) program, Section...

2. Brazil’s Urban Land and Housing Markets

   How Well Are They Working?
   Ponencias
   Mayo 2007
   David E. Dowall

   As does the United States, Brazil faces many housing policy challenges. David E. Dowell points out that Brazilian housing is expensive and lacks local services and secure land tenure—a phenomenon...

3. Land Policies and Their Outcomes

   Libros
   Mayo 2007
   Edited by Gregory K. Ingram and Yu-Hung Hong

   This book presents the main contributions to a Lincoln Institute conference, “Land Policies for Urban Development,” held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in June 2006. The conference was...

4. Land Lines, July 2007

   Revista Land Lines
   Julio 2007
   Edited by Ann LeRoyer

   This issue explores the lodging of rural migrants in China’s urbanizing villages; the unforeseen consequences of U.S. property assessment caps; international trends in the use of eminent domain...

5. Land Lines, April 2007

   Revista Land Lines
   Abril 2007
   Edited by Ann LeRoyer

   This issue looks at the ubiquity of slums and informal land markets in developing nations across Latin America, Asia, and Africa; the need for a well-functioning property tax system in the Anglophone...

6. Land Lines, January 2007

   Revista Land Lines
   Enero 2007
   Edited by Ann LeRoyer

   This issue explores the diversity of property rights, public-private partnerships, and other land policies across Latin America; the role of U.S. community land trusts in ensuring the preservation of...

7. Message from the President

   Community Land Trusts
   Revista Land Lines
   Octubre 2007
   Gregory K. Ingram

   Community land trusts provide affordable housing by separating the value of land from the value of buildings. Households pay for only the building or dwelling unit, and the CLT retains ownership of...

8. Faculty Profile

   John Emmeus Davis
   Revista Land Lines
   Octubre 2007

   Faculty profile of John Emmeus Davis.

9. Housing Rural Migrants in China's Urbanizing Villages

   Revista Land Lines
   Julio 2007
   Yan Song

   The emergence and prevalence of urbanizing villages is an outcome of China’s rapid urbanization, the dichotomy between rural and urban policies, and specific urban land policies.

10. Taking Land Around the World

    International Trends in the Use of Eminent Domain
    Revista Land Lines
    Julio 2007
    Antonio Azuela

    This tool has been used for a long time as a major instrument of land policy, but now it is subject to a number of criticisms and mounting social resistance in many parts of the world.