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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. 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...

3. 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...

4. Inclusionary Housing

   Creating and Maintaining Equitable Communities
   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Septiembre 2015
   Rick Jacobus

   This report illustrates how local governments can realize the full benefits of inclusionary housing policies, which require developers of new market-rate real estate to provide some affordable units...

5. State Trust Lands in the West, Updated Edition

   Fiduciary Duty in a Changing Landscape
   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Julio 2015
   Peter W. Culp, Andy Laurenzi, Cynthia C. Tuell, and Alison Berry

   This comprehensive report offers state trust land managers the latest strategies for asset management, residential and commercial development, conservation use, and collaborative planning. Land...

6. Conserving State Trust Lands

   Strategies for the Intermountain West
   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Marzo 2015
   Susan Culp and Joe Marlow

   This report presents and critiques tools and strategies for conserving western state trust lands with ecological and environmental value. A valuable resource for state trust managers and policy...

7. Measuring Urban Attitudes Using Twitter

   An Exploratory Study
   Documentos de trabajo
   Diciembre 2015
   Justin B. Hollander and Henry Renski

   The goal of this working paper is to introduce a new breed of powerful software tools and social media data that can be used to study the attitudes of people in urban places. In particular, the paper...

8. Where Do Property Rights Matter More?

   Explaining the Variation in Demand for Property Titles Across Cities in Mexico
   Documentos de trabajo
   Diciembre 2015
   Paavo Monkkonen

   Existing empirical research has established that stronger legal claims to property in urban areas have significant market value, but previous studies examine this question in a single city or market...

9. What Drives Neighborhood Trajectories in Legacy Cities?

   Understanding the Dynamics of Change
   Documentos de trabajo
   Diciembre 2015
   Alan Mallach

   This paper explores the dynamics of neighborhood change in legacy cities in the United States through a review of salient research and an analysis of neighborhood characteristics and trends in a...

10. Aumento de resiliencia al cambio climático en asentamientos informales de dos ciudades latinoamericanas

    Condega y Cartagena
    Documentos de trabajo
    Noviembre 2015
    Mona Serageldin, Alfredo Stein, Alejandra Mortarini, Carolina Morgan, Warren Hagist, Sheelah Gobar, and Luis Sevilla Fajardo

    El marco conceptual de esta investigación se basa en la documentación sobre los efectos del cambio climático y estrategias de adaptación publicada por el Panel...