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1. Greening America's Smaller Legacy Cities

   Resúmenes de políticas públicas
   Abril 2024
   By Joseph Schilling, Catherine Tumber, and Gabi Velasco

   Because urban centers generate most of the planet’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, cities often lead in implementing “green” initiatives to conserve resources, ensure clean air and...

2. Planning for Sustainable Food Systems: A Scenario Planning Toolkit

   Otro
   Diciembre 2023
   Kristi Taebe and Kaelan Watson

   This toolkit is intended to provide planning practitioners and other food systems stakeholders with a step-by-step guide to the application of scenario planning for bioregional food systems.

3. Rethinking the Property Tax-School Funding Dilemma

   Resúmenes de políticas públicas
   Febrero 2023
   By Daphne A. Kenyon, Bethany Paquin, and Andrew Reschovsky

   This policy brief 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–...

4. From State Capitols to City Halls

   Smarter State Policies for Stronger Cities
   Resúmenes de políticas públicas
   Diciembre 2022
   By Alan Mallach

   States matter. What happens in state government can make or break a city’s efforts to revitalize, yet this is frequently overlooked when it comes to a municipality’s economic, physical,...

5. Lily Robinson

   Otro

   Lily Robinson is a program coordinator for the International Land Conservation Network (ILCN) at the Lincoln Institute. She oversees the ILCN’s bimonthly newsletter, creates educational material, and...

6. Integrating Land Use and Water Management

   Resúmenes de políticas públicas
   Agosto 2022
   By Erin Rugland

   Land without water cannot support urban form of any scale, yet many land use decisions are made without regard to water, and vice versa. This Policy Brief introduces readers to best management...

7. Property Tax Relief for Homeowners

   Resúmenes de políticas públicas
   Marzo 2022
   Adam H. Langley and Joan Youngman

   Property Tax Relief for Homeowners offers a guide to providing effective, targeted property tax relief without compromising municipal fiscal health or services.

8. Equitably Developing America's Smaller Legacy Cities

   Investing in Residents from South Bend to Worcester
   Resúmenes de políticas públicas
   Mayo 2021
   Erica Spaid Patras, Alison Goebel, and Lindsey Elam

   Former industrial and manufacturing hubs like Dayton, Ohio, and Gary, Indiana—known as legacy cities—need not choose between economic growth and equity, as growth is most durable when it...

9. Duty to Serve

   Early Lessons Learned in Underserved Housing Markets
   Resúmenes de políticas públicas
   Abril 2021
   By Jim Gray and George W. McCarthy

   Enacted in the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 and launched in 2017, Duty to Serve (DTS) is a federal regulation that requires Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to provide affordable housing...

10. The Empty House Next Door

    Understanding and Reducing Vacancy and Hypervacancy in the United States
    Resúmenes de políticas públicas
    Agosto 2020
    Alan Mallach

    Vacant and abandoned properties are a familiar part of the American landscape that can devastate entire neighborhoods, diminishing the value of nearby properties. More extreme cases may cause severe...