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1. Conservation Easements: Legal Principles, Valuation, and Applications

   Educación a distancia
   Junio 14, 2023
   Faculty: Joan Youngman, Armando Carbonell, Paul O’Leary, James J. Czupryna, and Stephen J. Small

   Conservation easements play an important role in protecting natural landscapes and sensitive habitats, and in promoting sustainable land use practices. In this course, students will explore the...

2. Successful Property Tax Reform: The Case of Massachusetts

   Educación a distancia
   Enero 26, 2022
   Faculty: Karl E. Case, Jane Malme, and Ronald Rakow

   This course examines the deep problems of the Massachusetts property tax in the 1970s and the subsequent reforms that created one of the most functional and fair systems in the United States.

3. Foundations of Local Government Finance in the United States

   Educación a distancia
   Noviembre 9, 2022

   This online self-paced course provides an overview of how local governments in the U.S. raise and spend money for the public services and infrastructure that are foundational to a high quality of life.

4. Land Value Capture Approaches in São Paulo: Lessons from Brazil

   Educación a distancia
   Febrero 14, 2022
   Course dates: February 14, 16, 18, 21, 23 and 25, 2022  
   Time for all sessions: 9:00 – 11:00 a.m. US Eastern Standard Time (EST)
   Professors: Camila Maleronka, Paulo Sandroni, Martim O. Smolka, Enrique Silva, and Luis Quintanilla

   This course will explain the legal framework, mechanics, and outcomes of the pathbreaking land value capture approaches developed in São Paulo, Brazil, beginning in the 1990s.

5. Implementation of the Real Property Tax in Veliky Novgorod

   Land Policy Issues
   Ponencias
   Mayo 2001
   Natalia Kalinina

   This paper was written for and presented at a Lincoln Institute course titled, “Land Reform and Emerging Property Market in Russia,” held May 29-30, 2001, in St. Petersburg, Russia.

6. Monitoring the Share of Land in Streets

   Public Works and the Quality of Global Urban Expansion
   Ponencias
   Noviembre 2015
   Shlomo Angel

   Whether it is microhousing for hipsters in Seattle, high-rises for the upwardly mobile in Beijing, or informal settlements on the fringe of Nairobi, the expansion of urban areas is poorly monitored...

7. Climate Change and U.S. Cities

   Vulnerability, Impacts, and Adaptations
   Ponencias
   Noviembre 2015
   William Solecki

   William Solecki examines the challenge climate change creates for city planning complicated by the fact that barring serious intervention, some urban land may eventually be underwater. Climate change...

8. The Past and Future of the Urban Property Tax

   Ponencias
   Noviembre 2015
   Grant Driessen and Steven Sheffrin

   For U.S. cities, the property tax is the single largest source of own-source revenue, but the extent to which different cities rely on property tax revenues varies significantly. Grant Driessen and...

9. Foreclosures and Neighborhoods

   The Shape and Impacts of the U.S. Mortgage Crisis
   Ponencias
   Noviembre 2015
   Dan Immergluck

   This paper explores the root cause of municipal fiscal stress and documents the effects of foreclosures in the United States. The author, Dan Immergluck, examines the household- and neighborhood-...

10. A Realistic Assessment of Housing Finance Reform

    Ponencias
    Noviembre 2015
    Laurie S. Goodman

    Laurie S. Goodman focuses on the conservatorship and reform of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and the efforts to expand the role of private capital in such government sponsored enterprises (GSEs). At the...