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1. 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...

2. Zoning Rules!

   The Economics of Land Use Regulation
   Libros
   Julio 2015
   William A. Fischel

   “Fischel . . . does for the housing debate what zoning once did for cities: brings order and coherence to what’s otherwise a mess.” — Ezra Klein, New York Times This best-...

3. The Land Value Gradient in a (Nearly) Collapsed Urban Real Estate Market

   Documentos de trabajo
   Abril 2015
   Timothy R. Hodge, Gary Sands, and Mark Skidmore

   This paper uses data on thousands of vacant land sales to explore the pattern of land values in the City of Detroit. The analysis provides several insights, first of which is the documentation of a U...